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 think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered.
You get to a certain age, and you feel the need to reward yourself just for existing.
When I was signed, at the age of 23...the fact that I presented myself as an out gay man was very, very unusual.