"Well, darling, my opinion is simply that it doesn't matter if those old perverts have dirty minds."
"I haven't had the chance to see those yet. They sound beautiful."
"At least you're a painter. If someone else wrote the words, I could probably play that part, but describing them myself? I wouldn't know where to start."
"Could be fun."(He says it flirtatiously, though what he dreams isn't all that sexual. He's spent a fair time in palace on a river. The river winds in infinite oxbows, the balconies and courtyards of the palace loop in on themselves and the river in a fractal cascade of opalescent rainbow columns.)
"There's plenty of people without a lot of clothes on."(This is... sort of true.)
"If I look this good in life, how could I look any worse in my dreams?"
"I'm assuming that's a good thing?" (In his dreams he's androgynous, and presumably has... body parts, but he has never really thought to check?)