I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.

My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear.

Being on the road with rock, its pretty much 90 percent guys.

I plead total ignorance to Led Zeppelin. I am totally in the dark about them.

Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.

Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.

You have to open up on stage.