People should allow me to be many things, really give me the room to put things in another dimension.

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

Every time I bought a Rock and Roll record, I bought a classical record at the same time. I like each as well as the other.

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

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.

I feel threatened, and sometimes it makes me angry because I can't do anything about that, there's just too many issues. But in a way I think my work is meant to get people out of that.

I go on stage and people like what I look like; as soon as I'm outside I feel like I have to hide, because people laugh at me, because of the way I look. Now, I use this look, it works for me, I even exaggerate it. I used to hide my large forehead, but now I'm selling it.