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I grew up around backstage, and that clinched it for me.

I've met so many of my idols, but the one person that has eluded me is Bono. But because he's done 'Spider-Man,' I keep thinking maybe, through a Broadway connection, somehow our paths will eventually merge.

I've now met, I would say, almost every single one of my rock idols. I feel like I should just drive off a cliff now.

As a young concert-going person, I was never enamoured with celebrities who would walk out to feature in certain songs and then walk off.

Bono told me how to dance in high heels and he also told me about U2's Glastonbury performance and how everything that could have possibly gone wrong went wrong, including him ripping his trousers on stage. I think he was lunging and his trousers ripped! He was telling me how he had to find a new way of performing that didn't involve moving.

I was going out for absolutely everything that was in Backstage.

I was just glad to meet somebody outside of my group of small town friends who was into music. Somebody else who had aspirations to do something more than sing at a record hop.

The Grammy snuck up on me. I was on tour. It just hit me. I skipped down the street in Vienna. I kept saying, 'I won. I won.'

As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.