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" I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards. "

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" I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer. "

" There are days when I still want to be able to do what I want when I want, but there's also something wonderful about being secure. "

" I think I have allowed my voice to experiment with the different genres. And I think that I have just really enjoyed the journey of getting to know my voice and seeing what it's capable of, what it's not capable of. "

" When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society. "

" As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it. "

" I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine. "

" The older I get, the more I embrace who I am. "

" I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly. "

" I think I fall into a lot of cracks in terms of I'm too something. I'm too this, I'm too that. And my music has never really had a home. I've been this floating alternative. I'm too mainstream for alternative. I'm too alternative for mainstream. And I'm just kind of wandering. "

" My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted. "

" I don't sing anything that hurts my voice. "

" I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice. "

" It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make. "

" Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside. "

" I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by. "

" The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what's happening up there. "

" Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss. "

" I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current. "

" It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality. "

" Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through. "

" There needn't be a distinction between your life and your music. "

" I sort of believe that my voice was preordained; I'm a Buddhist who believes in reincarnation so I think that my voice is a few lifetimes old. "

" I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception. "

" Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go. "

" You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself. "

" We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste. "

" I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars. "

" I'm a singer and as long as I can sing - which, thank God, is something that I still seem to be able to do - I'd like to carry on making records. "