Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this.

When I first started talking about gay marriage most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane or possibly a fascist reactionary.

My own early crusade for same-sex marriage for example is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.

You know for many elected officials they all started in the same place. You know marriage is between a man and a woman but they understand that they are moving inevitably catching up to the American public.

Well marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate but it's in our heads and it determines a lot of our actions. Like right now if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.

When David Arquette and I got engaged we started therapy together. I'd heard that the first year of marriage is the hardest so we decided to work through all that stuff early.

There is hardly any activity any enterprise which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations and yet which fails so regularly as love.

I love women but I feel like you can't trust some of them. Some of them are liars you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her we started talking. She told me her dog's name. Then I said 'Does he bite?' She said 'No.' And I said 'Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?' Liar.

If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started.

We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that.