“I started rejecting the proper way to sing and I started singing.”

If My New Album Isn’t Out in 2014, Something is Seriously Wrong!

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.

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

When I was in high school I was 250 pounds.

Declare Church and State forever separate and distinct, but each free within their proper spheres, and that all church property shall bear its own proportion of taxation.

The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year’s Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to.

I like pubs too, but it’s hard for me to go and get proper bladdered in the way I used to.

The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans’ privacy.

Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.

Living longer is about loving longer, learning longer, teaching longer, connecting longer.

They lack any ability to sense what is beautiful or what is proper. They can be learned and skillful, but they lack the ability to make their own free judgment. It is really sad to see young adults of 20, 25 years who were never taught to make their own decisions.

Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. … under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.