All humans realize they are loved when witnessing the dawn; early morning is the triumph of good over evil. Absolved by light we decide to go on.

I'm a big fan of the Pre-Raphaelites. Millais, Edward Burne-Jones, and I realised recently that my music is Pre-Raphaelite in a certain way, in that it reinvents an older era and romanticises it, puts it in this gilded frame.

I came out of the closet very young, and I had to cut my teeth pretty fast.

Growing up, for years and years I had no idea what the plots of operas were, and that's part of what fascinated me - I could make them up and learn bits and pieces of what was going on over time. There's something about it being always a step away that makes it more fun to chase.

It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes.

As an artist, you put so much into what you do and it can all be torn down in a nanosecond.

For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust.