I want to make a pop album - something more upbeat than my stuff was in the '90s.

Playing with Queen was the biggest moment of my career. It was like living a childhood fantasy.

I thought I had fallen in love with a woman a couple of times. Then I fell in love with a man, and realised that none of those things had been love.

Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups.

People, you can never change the way they feel. Better let them do what they will. For they will, if you let them, steal your heart.

My dad worked in a very typical first-generation immigrant fashion - 24 hours a day for years.

I'm a perfectionist. It's a big pain in the ass and it takes a lot of my time, but it really is going well and I have to do my own things.