A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.

A lot of people felt I was getting work because I was Boy George. My response at the time was that there's a lot of DJs making records, they're not all making good records, but they have the right to do that.

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.

I can do anything. In GQ, I appeared as a man.

I look at performance clothes as setting the mood for the whole show.

I just love catchy melodies.

My mom's really into astrology and she's always telling me about the moon cycles and stuff like that.

Hopefully I inspire people just to lose themselves a little bit. That's what I enjoy doing on stage: challenging myself with a new territory, like performing differently, moving differently, singing differently, just let people know that it's okay just to do something that they've never done before.

I don't really know what emotions are going to come out in songs when I'm writing them until I step back and listen to them as a whole.

The more you practice something, the more you are aware of what you're doing.

Half the time, when I first run onstage, I can't look directly at the audience just because of self-consciousness. It's human nature. Sometimes you feel like the man, and sometimes you don't. But sometimes that self-conscious energy is good for the show, it draws people in more.

I really like intimate venues because it feels like everyone in the audience is in on all our inside jokes.

I'm always trying to top the last show.

I've gotten to play some cool venues, like at an aquarium in La Jolla, California.

Anything that makes life more of a dance party I'm very much okay with.

I did a lot of magic shows growing up. My dad is a graphic designer so he helped me brand myself and create a logo. So I was just rollin' with the magician crowd for a while. But I was really young, 10 to 13, doing table magic and balloon animals at this Italian restaurant.

I grew up with a big backyard that led to the sand dunes of Lake Michigan.

I'm fascinated by the yin and yang of everything.

I like to put coconut oil in my hair if it's looking dry. It's so unruly. It has a mind of its own.

I don't wash my hair that often, to be honest.

I don't like washing away your body's natural oils and pheromones. Those are good. You have to keep those.

A magic show and a concert are very similar in the way I like keeping things a mystery and not doing them the same way every time. The listener and the audience never know what's going to happen next.

My first CD started as a studio project and I record everything with one other guy, so I didn't have a band. That's kind of how I like to do it, though. I like to create it with one other person, this guy, Tommy English, who produces everything. And then I go out on the road with a band who interprets it live.