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" I'm very fit on tour. I try to eat well, try to sleep. But it's still rock n' roll. "
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" I basically have needed to go to the piano and give voice periodically to, you know - I'm always afraid to describe it as a kind of therapeutic process, but nevertheless it was a type of unloading that had to occur due to my personal life with my mother's health or just my professional trials and tribulations. "
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" One of the main destructive forces within our family has been these runaway egos. I think if you look at any show business family, that struggle exists. "
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" My dad and I have always been somewhat competitive. "
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" I could always escape into this demi-monde of homosexuality, which I feel really indebted to. It stopped me being a 'mummy's boy.' "
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" I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered. "
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" I'm a big fan of the Pre-Raphaelites. Millais, Edward Burne-Jones, and I realised recently that my music is Pre-Raphaelite in a certain way, in that it reinvents an older era and romanticises it, puts it in this gilded frame. "
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" My parents were serious working musicians, but they were not stars - not like pop stars that you have now. They had to make a living and that meant touring, working hard, going on the road - and we were roped in. "
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" It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally. "
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" I am under no illusion that I will ever be the greatest opera composer in the world, with Wagner and Verdi and Strauss before me. I think my work could fit very nicely into musicals, though. "
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" I like to make the mundane fabulous whenever I can. "
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" I think I've done a pretty fantastic job, but of course I want to sell millions of records. "
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" I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider. "
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" The artist who gave me the most inspiration and direction, especially as a singer - and I absolutely consider myself a singer, 100 percent - is Nina Simone. She's my ultimate pianist-singer-type person. "
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" To me, songs come of their own volition - and with an open-ended philosophy. "
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" Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life? I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you. "
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" Looking back, one of the things I love most about my mom was that she never, ever relented. She stuck to her guns right up until the end. She wasn't abusive, but she was never that thrilled that I was gay. "
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" Unless I have my aunt or my boyfriend to take care of me, I'm a little pathetic. "
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" Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't. "
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" I would love to have a number one hit. The truth is if I don't get one, I'll be fine, but at the same time, the truth is that I'm dying for one, as well. "
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" The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster scale. "
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" My mother's songs are really turning out to be masterpieces. I have inherited this incredible legacy and am so fortunate to bathe in her sensibilities. It is tinged with tragedy. I'd much rather she was here in person, but there is still a positive force to come out of her death and that is having the gift of music that she gave. "
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