There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.

Yes, I'm a homosexual and I like to shock people with glamour.

My mother and father could not handle even me being gay. We never talked about it really.

Prima Donna is my kind of love song to opera but it's not the full experience.

I'm your knight in shining armor. I'm here to save you from Linkin Park.

I'm very blessed, mainly because even though my family is mostly in show business, it's really centered around music. My parents were very successful in many ways, but they weren't necessarily top of the charts. We were never wealthy because of music. We always had to work and we always had to struggle a little bit, and I think at the end of the day that's been very good for me, because I have a sense of it being very ephemeral.

I definitely consider 'Poses' - the whole album in fact - to be kind of a miracle. Like the last breath of that moment when decadence is healthy, 'Poses' encapsulates that feeling. It's a kind of song and a kind of album that I'll never be able to repeat.