I've achieved what every artist wants, which is that some of their work will outlive them.

I define my sexuality in terms of the people that I love.

I think the media is a real demon.

I have the audience I deserve. Or at least I have the audience that represents the kind of people that I like.

It takes so much strength to say to your ego, 'You know what? You're going to keep me lonely, so I have to ignore you.'

My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven't. I am grateful to them for that.

I am really not interested or excited by repeating former successes.

I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.

The '90s were a bit of a disaster for me in so many ways. On a personal level, I don't think I could have toured. Also, I had some physical problems with my back that are now sorted and I just wasn't in the right state of mind.

I am a political person, though not with a big P.

Celebrity and secrets don't go together. The bastards will get you in the end.

I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really.

Not many people are really that meticulous with what they do, I suppose, but I'm just a control freak and terribly afraid of failure or regret. I work very hard on these things.

I had very little fear about it, but basically, my straight friends talked me out of it. I think they thought as I was bisexual, there was no need to. But it's amazing how much more complicated it became because I didn't come out in the early days. I often wonder if my career would have taken a different path if I had.

I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am.

Anybody who fights for human rights or to make this world a better place. Nurses, doctors, teachers: these are the people who deserve the credit these days.

In the years when HIV was a killer, any parent of an openly gay person was terrified. I knew my mother well enough that she would spend every day praying that I didn't come across that virus. She'd have worried like that.

I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.

There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find.

You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.

Music keeps you eternally young. It just does.

I'm gonna stay an album guy. In fact, concept albums are really blowing my mind right now, because if you want to promote an album, think about it - a concept album might be the way to go.

The great thing about albums is it gives you a lot of choices, and we can all say that the album business is dead, but watch Taylor Swift. I don't think it's dead. I just think we've got to hit on the energies that make people want to collect albums.

If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.