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The more hedonistic you were, the better...I very much subscribed to that as a young artist.
I'm not a terrible smoker, actually. My major addiction, which is horrible, is straight boys.
But I don't even think you hear me at all Under your medieval ceiling behind your biblical wall
I have this horrible, horrible habit of going on YouTube and checking out comments about what I do.
I have never cooked a meal in my life and always end up paying for dozens of people to eat with me.
I bemoan the fact that all my famous friends have places in St. Bart's and I have to go to Montauk.
But I want to deepen as an artist, and working with Shakespeare definitely points in that direction.
And I am left behind Corrupted crushed and blind All for a dream That in truth was never really mine.
I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider.
Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life?
Musically I'm able to keep going, because it's not about money and it's not about success. It's a challenge.
Every video I do is over budget by the time I walk on set. I am massively extravagant in my personal habits.
I still believe that love is the most powerful force in the world, even though I am yet to experience it fully.
I have a three-year-old daughter, which makes me more environmentally conscious. For me, it's about the future.
I don’t really have a relationship with the guitar; it’s like my slutty lover, whereas I’m married to the piano
I think my mother, more than anyone, knew the importance of inspiration. If it was occurring, you had to use it.
When I was signed, at the age of 23...the fact that I presented myself as an out gay man was very, very unusual.
I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People do not like death.
I've always gravitated towards opera, and the Royal Opera House is quite possibly the greatest opera house on earth.
I'll always be a boulevardier. I have an extreme reverence and romantic longing for all that is decrepit and fatalistic.
I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered.
Some people go to Berlin to get more cutting edge; I went and started wearing lederhosen and going to visit baroque palaces.
I very much faced my mother's death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I would do, the less I would feel.
Certainly in terms of my life - anybody's life - you go through death, childbirth and marriage, glory and defeat, and so on.
There is this church that I go to a lot in New York. I'm not religious but I love lighting candles and stuff. I find it useful.
I am always writing; if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output.
I have managed to eke out a good and substantial existence. I'm not shoveling gold bricks or anything, but I do very, very well.
I want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do that you need money.
I wish I could just relax sometimes and make some money, but I always feel like I have to prove some kind of big, profound point.
There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.
I could always escape into this demi-monde of homosexuality, which I feel really indebted to. It stopped me being a 'mummy's boy.'
Wouldn't Ponochio II be a great musical, now that he has to face the real world and get a wife... job. Now he wants to be a toy again.
I believe in freedom Freedom's apparently all I need But who's ever been free in this world? Who has never had to bleed in this world?
I don't want to hold you and feel so helpless I don't want to smell you and lose my senses And smile in slow motion With eyes in love.
And you will believe in love And all that it's supposed to be But just until the fish start to smell And you're struck down by a hammer.
The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster scale.
Once illness strikes, you realize there's not a lot of time for you to do what you really need to do. And there's no time like the present.
I am regarded as a usurper, as an imposter and dilettante, because I do technically come from the wrong side of the tracks in musical terms.
Premiering a new opera is probably one of the hardest things in the world to do, and opening nights of any opera are always pretty stressful.
I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty.
These are just the rules and regulations Of the birds, and the bees The earth, and the trees, Not to mention the gods, not to mention the gods.
I find so many songwriters today are missing an element... either the production is amazing but the songs aren't, or it's the other way around.
I find so many songwriters today are missing an element ... either the production is amazing but the songs aren't, or it's the other way around.
I knew I was gay when I was around 13. There wasn't the internet, there weren't support groups, AIDS was everywhere. I mean, it was really dark.
All humans realize they are loved when witnessing the dawn; early morning is the triumph of good over evil. Absolved by light we decide to go on.
I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older - until I drop dead of beauty.
I just think it's better to have ideas. I mean, you can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier, people die for them, people kill for them.
I really do fear that I'm dying I really do fear that I'm dead I saw it in your eyes what I'm looking for I saw it in your eyes what will make me live.
I've paid the price; I definitely have a reputation that precedes me, and there is a camp that plots my demise. But then again... it's funner that way.
When I'm in the classical world, I really treat it as exactly classical and I don't try and spruce it up or jazz it up or make it easier for the masses.