[Tabloids] could call you a child molester, I suppose, but they just go for the two things they think people are most likely to believe and that will most offend yourself and your popularity. My skin hardened to all that stuff years ago.

[My father] was not a musical man.

"Yog" is an abbreviation - my real name is Yorgos, which is Greek for George.

I suppose romantically there are fantasies that can still be realized. But not professionally.

There's something deep inside of me. There's someone else I've got to be.

Me, I don’t want any children, I don’t want responsibility. I am gay, I smoke weed and I do exactly what I want in my life because of my talent. I represent an ideal which others have had to let go and they blame me for that. Especially men.

I thought [first girlfriend] was trying to make a fool out of me. Then I found out that she wasn't, and we went out. That's a very good example of how little confidence I had.