Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.
My wish is for gay to become less of a label, and more of just one of many great colors in the collective box of humanity.
I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
After my tour I had time to stay at home, be with my boyfriend and hang out with friends and that brought me down to earth and helped me write music from a more relaxed place.
Fame is a very strange animal.
I never wore full-on eyeliner in high school, but I wanted to.
I was really beating myself up about performances and how I looked and this and that.
There's no regrets for me.
Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.
Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!
You know, if it weren't for these fans, I wouldn't have gotten as far as I did.
I just talk a lot, that's the problem.
There was a lot of me trying to be a 'fixer.' I was that kind of guy. I'd meet someone who had 'so much potential' that needed 'help.' I think that was kind of my curse for a long time.
My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.
I'm not a babysitter.
Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.
I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.
Those shows I did with Queen were pretty surreal. I was really excited and super-flattered, but intimidated at the same time.
It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienced.
