People are so nice to each other on holidays...especially at Christmas. Why don't people beat up each other at Christmas? Now that would be fun!

I approach everything as an absolute outsider. It is the only way I can break so many rules.

People do accuse me of being just decorative or an escapist - well I am. That's what I do. I am other things as well. I transcend the song and give it a different meaning.

Sometimes I sing very honestly, really as moving as possible.

It was just as shocking for me to sing opera in a falsetto soprano in Germany.

There are moments in my show that are very moving as well as amusing.

I am singing in an operatic voice for the public, to bring something more to Rock and Roll. Because in a Rock and Roll performance, the singer talks to the public whereas in Opera the singer only talks to a character, inside a story. The public sees this as a picture, I want to transport this picture into the room where the public is.