Some People Would Rather Stay Ignorant And

Society's Child' Was A Real Hard Record To Start With. That's All You Want Is For You To Put Your First Record Out And Have People Screaming At You In The Streets. But It Taught Me Right Away That What I Was Doing Was Valuable And Important.

I Think These Last 10 Years Have Seen Just A Huge Shift In The Psyche Of This Country As Regards Gay People. I Think Aids Had A Lot To Do With It. So Many Families Who Really Believed They'd 'never Met One' Were Suddenly Confronted With Their Sons Becoming Ill, And Friends Of Sons. I Think That Brought A Lot Of It Into The Open.

I Played For Anybody And Everybody From The Time I Started Playing Guitar, When I Was 10 Or 11.

Dreams Were All They Gave For Free To Ugly Duckling Girls Like Me.

At The End Of The Day, If You Don't Have A Record Contract, A Studio Or A Guitar, You Can Still Write Songs. You're Still An Artist. That's Something No One Can Take Away.