My first album was completed in three months.

The album feels like a new era for me -- emotionally, lyrically, sonically. It feels fresh, it feels new. It's still me. It's still stuff that fans know and love but it's a new chapter 100 percent.

I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.

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.

There's no regrets for me.

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

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