“This state or a political subdivision of this state may not create or recognize any legal status identical or similar to marriage.”

“I didn’t want to jump onto (the cover of) a gay magazine (Out) as my first thing because I feel like that’s putting myself in a box and limiting myself. It was my desire to stay away from talking about certain political and civil rights issues because I’m not a politician. I’m an entertainer. That is not my area of expertise. I can talk about relationships and personal experiences because as an artist those things involve writing lyrics and that part of my process. But I didn’t feel comfortable talking about the March on Washington. I didn’t feel comfortable, so I asked my publicist to ask the (Out) interviewer to stay away from the political questions. ... Not every gay man is the same gay man.”

“‘Going Rogue’ is such a postmodern book that treating it as some kind of factual narrative to check (as I began to), or comparing its version of events with her previous versions of the same events (as I have), and comparing all those versions with what we know is empirical reality (so many lies, so little time) is just a dizzying task. The lies and truths and half-truths and the facts and non-facts are all blurred together in a pious puree of such ghastly prose that, in the end, the book can only really be read as some kind of chapter in a cheap nineteenth century edition of ‘Lives of the Saints.’ But as autobiography.”

“She’s very boring to me – very boring and, to me, kind of a dangerous person. I mean, she’s dangerous. She’s so confused. And anyone like that in government is a real problem.”