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Whenever I perform, people get me because I'm talking about things that people can identify with and relate to. I'm not just up there doing jokey, jokey, joke.
I've sung my whole life. I've taken lots of voice lessons and I love to sing. But I've never really sung professionally at all.
Being appointed Elder Professor meant very much taking over the shop, in that the professor in those days controlled all the moneys.
When I was first starting out, and I was less established, I was really concerned about being typecast.
All over the country, they're reading about me, and the story doesn't center on me being gay. It's just about a gay person who is doing his job.
I always was really confident about myself, about my voice, myself as a person, my body, all of those things, but as a songwriter - I just didn't identify as a songwriter at all.
There are so many things to take into account - your ambition, your ego, the press, the consumers. You can never be sure that you'll be on top of the pile again.
I've never really been the type of person who worries much about what people think of me.
Nowadays, performers worry too much about how they look. They're not concerned about what they're really saying to their audience.
