I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there.

I'm mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it's the only place where I'm happy.

My goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance.

My dream was to not get a day job but to sleep, wake up and do my music. I want to keep that dream forever.

From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation.

I lived my teenage years in my 20s when I sort of left home and became Elton John success, then it became Elton John excess... Everything I couldn't do when I was younger I did 10 times over. I was having the time of my life. I was becoming the person that I wanted to be.