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I Try To Have A Real Close Connection With My Fans. That's Extremely Important. They Are The Ones That Have Been There From The Beginning And Proved Everyone Else Wrong.

My Feeling Is, Twitter's Free. If People Want To Have A Political Discourse With Me On Twitter, And They Disagree With Me, I've Got All The Time In The World For That. It's When It Gets Nasty That I Have Problems.

I Hate Birthdays. It's So Funny, People Always Come Up To Me, "hey! It's My Birthday!" But When It's My Birthday, I Don't Want To Talk About It, I Don't Wanna Tell Anybody.

My School Life Was Very Much A Wandering Experience. I Was Having Trouble In School And I Was Not Making A Lot Of Friends. So Coming Home And Actually Improvising On The Piano And Just Coming Up With Melodies Was An Escape For Me.

The Shower Is My Time To Open Up My Operatic Chops, Because Of The Enormous Echo. You Sound Five Times As Big In The Shower, So I Break Into Some "nessun Dorma" From Puccini 's Turandot Or Pearl Jam. You've Got To Go Big When You're In The Shower. There's No Half-singing In The Shower, You're Either A Rock Star Or An Opera Diva.