I like to think of myself as a combination of Sid Vicious and Virgil Thompson.

My mother had a lot of parties when I was a child. There'd always be a moment when she would place me on the upright piano and have me sing Somewhere….

I've written songs for Shirley Bassey, Marianne Faithfull, and Linda Thompson. I sort of focus on these wonderful, aging divas. But maybe that's beca….

I like to try new things..

I have a lot of advantages: I'm not addicted to horrifying pills. I also have surrounded myself with far more caring and upright individuals. And I w….

Well, my great lesson with that was I went to the same production twice - once completely high and once completely sober - and both times were equall….

I will take my coffee black / never snack / hang with the wolves who are sheepish..

Prima Donna is my kind of love song to opera but it's not the full experience..

I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered..

In the music business, to survive for so long, you have to be able to cut off from your emotions sometimes. And being a father, you're faced with tha….

Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't..

Guess the world needs both sun And the moon too Sad with what I have except for you..

When I was signed, at the age of 23...the fact that I presented myself as an out gay man was very, very unusual..

I'm hyper light-sensitive and must sleep in the equivalent of a sealed tomb..

I made the decision to take on board the critical feedback. Reviews are something you can easily ignore as a performer or writer but I chose to not i….

But I want to deepen as an artist, and working with Shakespeare definitely points in that direction..

Every video I do is over budget by the time I walk on set. I am massively extravagant in my personal habits..

The song is about knowing the end result of every situation you're in, and being able to play it out in your mind and see it before it happens. It's ….

I'm a big fan of the Pre-Raphaelites. Millais, Edward Burne-Jones, and I realised recently that my music is Pre-Raphaelite in a certain way, in that ….

When it came to using elements of your personal life in your work, my mother was the master, or the mistress. There were three or four songs she wrot….