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.

My mother was always supportive.

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

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.

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.

I want to upset people, I want to make people think, I want to keep people interested.

Fame is a very strange animal.