For whatever reason not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And believe me it is a gift.

There's more good music being made now than ever before.

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.

I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me.

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song if I choose to not look inside myself to write music I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.

I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces as opposed to what I see it being now which is a way for me to actually communicate and a way for me to tap into my subconscious.

Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

I feel good about being able to take bluegrass on to television like 'Letterman' and 'The View ' and I've heard nice things about being able to do that. I really haven't felt any negativity toward me or my music.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.