It's very important to have two tiaras when you're on the road. You never know when you'll be invited to something really formal.

I'm 27 years clean, and when you get clean, you see things in a different way. It makes your life so much more manageable.

I tried to commit suicide one day. It was a very Woody Allen-type suicide. I turned on the gas and left all the windows open.

So I am deeply saddened and shocked over the current legislation that is now in place against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community here in Russia. In my opinion, it is inhumane and it is isolating.

There's a lot of hate in the world.

You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships.

My mother encouraged me and was very great about me being gay, but she always encouraged me to follow my musical dreams, which I'm very grateful for.