Adam Lambert Quotes

My first album was completed in three months.

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.

Bowie's been a huge influence on me. I remember early on, my dad pulling out the 'Diamond Dogs' album, and the cover alone just grabbed my attention. I think I was probably around 12.

I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don't think it's a better way or the way, but it's my way.

Los Angeles can be a really sad city.

I just talk a lot, that's the problem.

There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.

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

The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.

I'm proud of my sexuality.

I was looking for something and I wasn't sure what it was. [After experimenting with] certain funguses, I had a psychedelic experience where I looked up at the clouds and went, 'Oh!' I realized that we all have our own power, and that whatever I wanted to do, I had to make happen.

I like 'Rocky Horror.'

I definitely have my opinions that I'm very vocal about and I'm not afraid to put them out there.

Being who you are is a lot easier than faking it.

I am gay, and I'm very comfortable with it.

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

I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

I like adding little elements into the final mix. I'm more fond of the '70s glam than '80s. I have that style of vocals... there are a lot of pop artists who are using the glam vibe in their music. I'm part of that wave.

When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.

If sexy scares you, don't listen to my music.

Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.

I need to be able to explain myself in context.

You are so much more, than your orientation, you know it and I know it.

I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

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.

No escaping when I start, once I'm in I own your heart

I have crushes on women all the time. I don't have intimate relationships with them, but I find women beautiful.

I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.

I was really beating myself up about performances and how I looked and this and that.

It gets better. It seems hard, you know, I think being different is always gonna be a tough climb. There's always gonna be people that are scared of it. But at the end of the day you give those bullies, those people, that are so ignorant, if you give them the power to affect you, you're letting them win. And they don't deserve that. What you're doing by being yourself is you're keeping it real, and you're being really brave.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

I'm so happy to be in a committed relationship.

Yeah, I think speculation keeps things really interesting.

Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.

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

I started rejecting the proper way to sing and I started singing.

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.

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.

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

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

I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself the label 'bisexual,' but bi-curious? Yea.

Pop is a little bit theatrical. That's the whole vibe. That's the point - is that it's great music, great melodies, great hooks. But, on top of it, it's a presentation. There's a showmanship about it. And that's why I wanted to be a pop star.

I don't like to look typical.

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

The only lifestyle I'm promoting is the lifestyle of love and friendship. The lifestyle of music, and joy, and fashion. So whoever wants to come and get part of that lifestyle, we accept anybody.

'Come out' is so funny to me because I've never been in.

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