I'm very fit on tour. I try to eat well, try to sleep. But it's still rock n' roll.

When I was signed, at the age of 23...the fact that I presented myself as an out gay man was very, very unusual.

I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People do not like death.

And I am left behind Corrupted crushed and blind All for a dream That in truth was never really mine.

I'm very fit on tour. I try to eat well, try to sleep. But it's still rock n' roll.

My love of classical hit pretty early. I was 13 when it occurred, and that was really the only music I listened to for many, many years. I went to a conservatory, but I always knew I would be in the pop world, because A) it was more fun and B) you didn't have to practice as much and you could go out more. But I immediately saw this opportunity to inject my material with these sounds that most members of my generation really didn't know about, so it was a great way to differentiate myself from the pack.

The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster scale.