“Those shows I did with Queen were pretty surreal. I was really excited and super-flattered, but intimidated at the same time.”

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And they don’t deserve that. What you’re doing by being yourself is you’re keeping it real, and you’re being really brave.

I never wore full-on eyeliner in high school, but I wanted to.

A lot of my male vocal influences are British – people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.

I had a lot of fun with my costume designer.

People want to talk about whether I have rock cred, whether I’m selling out, the theatricality, the gay stuff… Chill out! And just enjoy yourself.

There’s a certain amount of mind control that happens. Everybody is living in a world where they’re being controlled.

No matter how much money, fame, and fortune you have, it doesn’t mean sh** if it’s not connected with love.

It’s still stuff that fans know and love but it’s a new chapter 100 percent.

I’m very inspired by past music.

Bowie’s been a huge influence on me. I remember early on, my dad pulling out the ‘Diamond Dogs’ album, and the cover alone just grabbed my attention. I think I was probably around 12.

There’s always gonna be people that are scared of it. But at the end of the day you give those bullies, those people, that are so ignorant, if you give them the power to affect you, you’re letting them win

The only lifestyle I’m promoting is the lifestyle of love and friendship. The lifestyle of music, and joy, and fashion.

There’s a certain level of pageantry with ‘Idol,’ and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.

When I was in high school I was 250 pounds.

I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don’t think it’s a better way or the way, but it’s my way.

In New York, I was excited about the music in New York because the only music that I was more or less involved with in the South was either country and western or hillbilly music as we used to call it when I was a kid and, ah, gospel.

The fans out in New Zealand are amazing. They’re genuinely excited and appreciative that you’re playing their country.

That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.

I wasn’t too excited about school, I’m not going to lie.

I think there’s this general hunger for greater diversity, where publishers are really excited about finding different voices than what has been done.

For me, like, the more interesting a letter is I just get more excited and I know that this going to be great for my friends who are looking forward to reading that in my comic.

And when you perform and create this story, they’re chuffed – they get excited, they capture it, and they put it out.

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