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

I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's War and Peace everyday.

Life is a game and true love is a trophy.

I'm your knight in shining armor. I'm here to save you from Linkin Park.

Let the little fairy in you fly!

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older - until I drop dead of beauty.

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

There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.

After years of hotels, I'm horribly inept at cleaning up after myself.

Arguably, the relationship between Liza Minnelli and Judy Garland is one of the great mother-daughter sagas of all time. Certainly, for certain people, and a lot of them, Liza is the bigger star. Liza is the more kind of viable legend, shall we say. Then there's the other camp, where Judy is the one.

Being uncool is being pretty much the coolest you can be.

Crazy as it sounds, I'm a believer in destiny and serendipity, and I have had cosmic experiences all my life. Something told me I was meant for greater stuff. And look, I've had a baby! And I've written an opera!

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

For better or worse, I've always been curious musically. Whether it's opera or Judy Garland or pop, I've deliberately sought those things out. I've never wanted to do the same things over and over. Some think I've accomplished what I set out to do, and others consider me a dilettante.

For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust.

I am always writing; if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output.

I basically have needed to go to the piano and give voice periodically to, you know - I'm always afraid to describe it as a kind of therapeutic process, but nevertheless it was a type of unloading that had to occur due to my personal life with my mother's health or just my professional trials and tribulations.

I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you.

I bemoan the fact that all my famous friends have places in St. Bart's and I have to go to Montauk.

I came out of the closet very young, and I had to cut my teeth pretty fast.

I could always escape into this demi-monde of homosexuality, which I feel really indebted to. It stopped me being a 'mummy's boy.'

I definitely consider 'Poses' - the whole album in fact - to be kind of a miracle. Like the last breath of that moment when decadence is healthy, 'Poses' encapsulates that feeling. It's a kind of song and a kind of album that I'll never be able to repeat.

I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider.

I definitely try to broaden the scope of music. I don't know if it's pop or classical or what, but I'm religiously challenging myself all the time, for better or for worse.

I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not.

I find so many songwriters today are missing an element... either the production is amazing but the songs aren't, or it's the other way around.

I have an ounce of Lady Gaga's full-bodied ambition.

I have managed to eke out a good and substantial existence. I'm not shoveling gold bricks or anything, but I do very, very well.

I have this horrible, horrible habit of going on YouTube and checking out comments about what I do.

I like to make the mundane fabulous whenever I can.

I like to sing to Verdi, I like singing to Sibelius, and Mahler maybe.

I like to try new things.

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 ignore them here and I think that I benefited. I think I'm stronger for it - and I have a tougher skin as a result.

I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's 'War and Peace' everyday.

I should write a musical. That is probably one of the final areas that I should pay attention to, because it does kind of involve everything. It's got theatre, it's got young, pretty people... And it's got money!

I still believe that love is the most powerful force in the world, even though I am yet to experience it fully.

I think I've done a pretty fantastic job, but of course I want to sell millions of records.

I think my mother, more than anyone, knew the importance of inspiration. If it was occurring, you had to use it.

I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People do not like death.

I think we could all be a bit more elitist.

I was reared on folk music.

I wish I could just relax sometimes and make some money, but I always feel like I have to prove some kind of big, profound point.

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 it reinvents an older era and romanticises it, puts it in this gilded frame.

I'm definitely a fan of juxtaposition. Using the most beautiful line to say the most horrific thing - I think one of the main things in songwriting is definitely friction between the words and the melody.

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

I'm not born again, I'm not Kabbalah, God forbid, but I did have an experience hitting 30 that I needed to lean on something that assured me that everything is going to be okay. I had to regain a lot of my belief in fairy tales, in happy endings.

I'm very fit on tour. I try to eat well, try to sleep. But it's still rock n' roll.

I'm very much a romantic. I'm highly attuned to an older sensibility, which I believe is alive and well. We're not that far ahead of the Romantic Age in society.

I've always gravitated towards opera, and the Royal Opera House is quite possibly the greatest opera house on earth.