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

All these songs honestly explore the ups and downs of my reality.

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

We don't have a lot of men on stage doing flamboyant or theatrical. We have a lot of female pop stars doing it, but where are the guys? Where's the classic pop-rock showman?

Be who you want to be - be free in your own skin, be liberated and feel beautiful, and do what you want to do without judgement

I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.