For a while I took Ecstacy when it was not very available over here. I took it simply because it made me feel that everything was wonderful.

I want the people who came to listen to have a good time as well. So it's a matter of playing a control game when all I really want to do is go out there and sing.

I hope it really comes off. It would make my dad really proud." (about the song for the coming 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece)

50 percent of the people I perform for have come to scream at me and the other 50 percent have come to listen to the music.

It does bother me when they [tabloids] drag friends of mine into it and talk about them and lie about them. My friends have no part in it; they're not celebrities, so why should they have to accept the downside of celebrity? That worries me for a bit.

[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.

I'm basically a control freak. It's not because I want to be. I'm not at all into the power play that's involved in it.