I'm just a simple kid from Brooklyn who landed into the most enchanted lifestyle imaginable.

This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of today's elected officials.

No, I ain't a star - I'm just a kid from Brooklyn, living his dream.

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.

A famously open gay singer-songwriter (told me) Luther was dying to have a boyfriend. It was an inside show business open secret.

Pretending to be other people helped bring me out of my shell and shed my inhibitions.