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'Prima Donna' is my kind of love song to opera but it's not the full experience.

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There is this church that I go to a lot in New York. I'm not religious but I love lighting candles and stuff. I find it useful.

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I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered.

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The thing I hate most is false modesty. The artists who are, like, 'Oh, you know, I'm really not that good. Oh, I can't believe I'm here.' I find it vaguely sinister, even.

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I've paid the price; I definitely have a reputation that precedes me, and there is a camp that plots my demise. But then again... it's funner that way.

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I'm not born again, I'm not Kabbalah, God forbid, but I did have an experience hitting 30 that I needed to lean on something that assured me that everything is going to be okay. I had to regain a lot of my belief in fairy tales, in happy endings.

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I like to sing to Verdi, I like singing to Sibelius, and Mahler maybe.

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I could always escape into this demi-monde of homosexuality, which I feel really indebted to. It stopped me being a 'mummy's boy.'

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My mother and father could not handle even me being gay. We never talked about it, really.

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I would love to have a number one hit. The truth is if I don't get one, I'll be fine, but at the same time, the truth is that I'm dying for one, as well.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Musician

Born: July 22nd, 1973

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