"I was 13. I'd already accepted Christ as my spiritual saviour, but pretty soon after that I became aware of my own sexuality. And so the 2 struggled against each other for years."

"I'm getting fed up of not being able to buy records by a gay person singing about their relationship with someone of the same sex. Not heterosexual, not ambiguous. You can read gay innuendo into a lot of songs if you want to. What I want is more direct 'he' and 'him'."