I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.
When you're a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you're like, 'God, why are they reading the newspaper?' When you're young, you're not reading the newspaper. But there comes a time in your life when the newspaper's cool.
I loved the Cure and Bauhaus and the Smiths. The people in my town weren't privy to that kind of music and I got abused. I discovered the microphone to get out some of that angst.
I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.
Being in the navy was like being in prison. I made the biggest mistake of my life.
Sometimes I just wish I was born a woman, that way it would be okay to feel about men the way I do now!
It's good to be a rock star, dude. You get into restaurants dressed like crap when you're supposed to have a suit on.