I've sung other people's music all my life.

The best way to be loved, is to love yourself.

Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!

I think the responsibility of pop stars is to liberate the masses. In that everyone can be whatever they wanna be. You can march to your own beat. It's so hard sometimes in our country because conformity is the way things are pushed.

I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock 'n' roll spirit, swagger to the game.

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

I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.