When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience – they love it.

I try to go throughout my daily life just as if nothing has changed, but you don’t have much anonymity anymore, which feels really good. People come up, and say hi and they enjoy your...

I was really beating myself up about performances and how I looked and this and that.

I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer – not on my private life.

You can’t plan everything – if I did a performance exactly how I rehearsed it, it would be so boring.

I started to realize I wasn’t like every other boy.

I want to upset people, I want to make people think, I want to keep people interested.

I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.

For me, one of the important things about keeping vocally healthy is warming up and making sure I’m aware where my voice is at, drinking lots of water and getting plenty of sleep, and just...

The biggest risk I’ve ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn’t going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.

I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.

I worked at Starbucks when I was 16… It was all right.

I would love to do a live show with dancers and fashion and scenic elements – definitely bring my love of the theater to a concert-style performance.

I love myself and I am a good person.

I think it’s up to the parents to discern what their child is watching on television.

I’ve been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn’t ever give myself the label ‘bisexual’, but bi-curious? Yea.

I am who I am.

I’m trying to convey to my audience that you really can’t judge a book by its cover, and there’s more to the universe than you can see with your eyes.

At least I can say that I’m honest.

I have crushes on women all the time.

I’m inspired by history, different periods.

I’m not a babysitter.

I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.

I’m trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

I have crushes on women all the time. I don’t have intimate relationships with them, but I find women beautiful.

I just talk a lot, that’s the problem.

I get why certain actors want to stay in the closet.

‘Come out’ is so funny to me because I’ve never been in.

I nitpick details.

It’s been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I’ve experienced.

I’ve sung other people’s music all my life.

I’m proud of my sexuality.

My first album was completed in three months.

Right now, I’m not really thinking about marriage.

I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.

I need to be able to explain myself in context.

I breeze through Twitter – I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.

I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock ‘n’ roll spirit, swagger to the game.

Los Angeles can be a really sad city.

There’s no regrets for me.

In middle school, I really didn’t have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama.

My wish is for gay to become less of a label, and more of just one of many great colors in the collective box of humanity.

Wait a minute, I’m a fan of yours; you can’t be a fan of mine!

Fame is a very strange animal.

I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don’t think it’s a better way or the way, but it’s my way.

I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn’t have, or what I still wanted.

A lot of my male vocal influences are British – people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.

Pop is a little bit theatrical. That’s the whole vibe. That’s the point – is that it’s great music, great melodies, great hooks. But, on top of it, it’s a presentation. There’s a showmanship about...

My mother was always supportive.