Conforming is not cool. Embracing who you are and what makes you different is actually what’s really cool.

I've always been fond of the glam-rocker title.

So pretty much, to sum it up, if you can freak someone out and bring that kind of emotion out of somebody with a song, you're doing something right.

Los Angeles can be a really sad city.

When I was kid, I remember playing 'Vogue' by Madonna over and over and over again. And ah, you know, something about the beat was really cool, and Madonna, visually, was on TV all the time and I thought she was just so beautiful.

Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.

There's a certain amount of mind control that happens. Everybody is living in a world where they're being controlled. They're being told what to think, what to do, and what to eat.