“You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.”
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My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted.
Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.
