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So okay, I accepted, and I realized while working for that concert that I'd been missing something very important and vital to me, and that something was music.

I've been told by a lot of people after concerts that they felt the show was just for them. And I try to make it that way.

You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.

With the first album, I wanted to do so many different things, and I was fighting with myself to try and see if I was worthy enough to do it.

I had a feeling it was gonna work out because not only did I enjoy the music and hit it off with the guys, but I was into theatrical rock and was willing to wear makeup and do anything to make it.

Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.

In a way, I feel it might be ill-mannered to try and top myself. The music I play is a ritual. Something that matters to people in a special way. I wouldn't want to interfere with that.

Performing has been part of my life since I was eight years old, so that's what I think I do. I don't think about the fact that it happens to be in a bigger venue where people get to know you, or they think they do.

If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.