WEBVTT - Singing Sensation Adam Lambert On Touring With Queen And Coping With Anxiety 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.360 The New York Post here is kind of famous for 0:00:02.440 --> 0:00:06.680 their crazy headlines and your posts. And they found a 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:10.360 murder victim in a strip club and the headline was 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:13.840 headless girl in a topless club. And that was the 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:16.720 headline on the front page of the newspaper. All sold out. 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:20.440 They've never sold it. Thank god you're listening. They said 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:23.279 it wouldn't last, and here it is on this podcast. 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:26.439 We're talking to my friend Adam Lambert. And at the 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:28.680 end of these thirty minutes, he'll be your friend too. 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:32.000 Just the nicest guy, and he already has this rich 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:35.559 history even after only fourteen years since American Idol when 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:38.199 he first hit the scene. Let's talk about being on 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:41.280 the road with Queen filling the shoes of Freddie Mercury. 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:43.120 Is that what he's doing or is he doing his 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:45.760 own thing. Let's talk about his new album. Let's talk 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:49.200 about anxiety, Let's talk about how he looks, his glam 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:52.080 everything about him is so interesting. Well, you'd be the 0:00:52.159 --> 0:01:00.800 judge of that. Here we go, Oh, hi, is it 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:05.080 time to roll the fourth podcast? They said we would 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:07.759 never make it this far, and I'm thanking the God 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:10.760 above that we did. Because Adam Lambert's here. Hi Adam, Hi, 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:12.160 thank you for being. 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:13.000 Here, Thanks for having me. 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:15.520 Look here you are in New York City. I know 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:17.200 you've got a lot going on. You're talking about the 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:21.640 new album called High Drama. You've got beauty products that 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:22.319 you're pushing. 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:25.320 I am, I'm like a jack of all trades right now. 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:27.560 Let's do this. Let's play a game. Let's play the game. 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:30.920 Name everything you're doing? This not music related? 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:34.720 Oh lord? Okay, nail polish, but orly we did a collaboration. 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:39.080 I've been doing some voiceover work stuff like for some 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:42.080 cartoons you have to be revealed later. Okay, all right, 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:46.560 what else am I doing that's not music? And it 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:48.360 all kind of comes back to music, actually, So I 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:50.520 don't know. I don't think there's anything else to report. 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:53.120 I mean, it was what ten, eleven, how many years 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:55.160 ago when you were on idol, when we first were 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:56.800 introduced you, fourteen years ago. 0:01:57.000 --> 0:01:58.200 Okay, isn't that crazy? 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:00.360 So fourteen years ago you're like, Okay, I don't know 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:02.160 what the f we're doing here, but let's get up 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:05.200 the next stage. And you totally won our hearts and 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:08.040 you won us over. But back in the day, did 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:10.120 you ever think that one day you'd be in New 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:14.720 York talking about this line of fingernail polish. 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:18.080 This sounds silly, but it's such a fantasy of mine, 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:20.480 you know, Ever since I literally when I was like 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:24.680 probably like a freshman in high school, I remember watching 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:28.560 TV and seeing Dave Navarro talking about wearing nail polish, 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:30.600 and it was it was like he was putting on 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:33.840 this like gun metal color and he just looked so cool. 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:35.360 And I remember being like, Oh, I want to wear 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:37.800 nail polish. And I went to a hot topic at 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:40.639 the mall. H I found some nail polish and I 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:42.840 put it on. It's just I've always loved it. And 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:45.040 so the fact that I got to develop these colors 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:46.320 and name them, that's so fun. 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:48.120 Well, then the next time we read them all you stopped, 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:52.520 obviously by piercing Pagoda, because you've got lots of piercings, 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:55.440 going yeah, if you do, you have any down below? No. 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:58.959 No, I had my nipple pierce once though, but only one. 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:00.760 You made it sound like that was thing in the past. 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:03.160 It was terrible. It got I was on tour. This 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:03.720 is so gross. 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:06.240 It got infected, right, which is not fun. So you 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:08.519 were like spotting your blouse on swell more or less. 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:10.600 Yeah, I mean when you're sweating and stuff, like on 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:12.919 stage and working and you you know, it gets in 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:15.400 there and it literally swelled to the size of a 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:17.880 golf ball. It was terrifying. Okay, and we had to 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:19.280 have a doctor. This is so gross. You don't want 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:20.079 this on your podcast? 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:20.840 Yes I do. 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:22.720 Oh my god, oh boy. The doctor had to come 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:24.400 in and like drain it. 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:25.400 Yeah. 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:27.400 I'm telling you have never felt anything more painful in 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:27.720 my life. 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:32.160 Well, so, so therefore you didn't you didn't do more piercings. No, No, 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:34.040 have you ever dated a guy that had like Prince 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:35.920 Alberts and stuff like that? Is this getting too personal? 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:38.400 No? I have not dated a guy that had a 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:41.240 Prince Albert, but I've definitely experienced one. 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:44.280 Okay, because I mean, because that shit can ship a tooth, 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:44.920 you know what I'm saying. 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:47.520 Exactly? Okay, well exactly. I was like, take it out. 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:51.520 Let's get back to the music, shall me. I don't 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:53.720 feel like you started with that. The reason why I 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:57.040 love it when you visit us because when Adam Adam 0:03:57.120 --> 0:03:59.880 visits the station and the show, it usually means there's 0:03:59.880 --> 0:04:02.960 a promo ahead, and you're always glammed up. You've got 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:05.920 the hair looking spiked and fun, You've got the makeup on, 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:08.240 you've got the wardrobe. Of course, I. 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:09.800 Feel like at this point if I didn't, it would 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:12.560 be like weird because people like that's just what they 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:14.000 know of me. And then I feel like if I 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:17.200 came in like full, like you know, day off vibe, 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:19.080 which is different. I mean I like to wear like 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:21.400 sweatpants and a baseball hat when I'm walking around, right, 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:23.719 I think I just think people would be disappointed in me. 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:27.159 Do you still well? I know this is radio, so 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:29.800 that's funny. But there are cameras, I swear, you know, 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:33.479 we have proof he's looking great. But do you I 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:35.559 and for lack of a better term, do you enjoy 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:36.440 playing dress up? 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:38.160 Do you enjoy it? I love it. 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:40.400 I you know, there are days every once in a 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:42.120 while if it's a busy schedule, I'm like, oh, I 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:44.039 gotta do it. I gotta get ready. You know, it 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:47.840 becomes a bit of a chore. But once I start, 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:48.520 I get into it. 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:49.039 I like it. 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:51.080 It puts me in a mood, It makes me feel creative, 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:54.240 it puts me in like it gives me confidence, makes 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:56.760 me feel like, you know, I'm stepping into my uniform 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:59.000 almost like this is my this is my world, this 0:04:59.080 --> 0:04:59.560 is my job. 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:02.360 So you know, when you're when you're made up and 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:05.800 looking really really really beautiful, you must that means there's 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:09.240 something going on, an event, there's something outside. Typically yeah, 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:12.040 so you're it's psyching you up for whatever event. 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:13.919 Exactly be I mean, there's nothing like getting ready for 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:15.600 even if it's not work, if it's like a night out, 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:17.440 there's nothing like that, like getting ready for a night out. 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:18.440 You have your music playing. 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:21.040 I like that feeling. I want you to take all 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:23.960 of us to a place that we will never know 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:27.720 unless living it, like caiously through you. Let's say you're 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:29.560 going to an award show, a big let's say it's 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:31.599 a Grammy. Let's say it's a big award show. Yeah, 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:35.360 and so start out with the people who come over, 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:39.120 and they they they style you, they or they help 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:41.760 you with your decisions. I'm sure, I'm sure no one 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:42.160 helps man. 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:42.800 I do it myself. 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:43.600 You do all yourself. 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:44.000 Yeah. 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:44.599 Okay, so you. 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:46.239 Don't have a stylist right now, I don't have makeup 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:46.799 or hair. 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:48.560 And you don't need one. I mean you you hit 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:49.680 it out of the park every time. 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:51.479 I mean, I've definitely used them in the past, but 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:53.680 I currently know yeah, not recently. 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:55.359 Okay. It's the day of the event, let's call it 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:58.480 the Grammys, Okay, okay, and you're in home, you're at 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:00.520 home or in your hotel room, and you're look in 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:02.560 the mirror, you're putting it all on, you're getting that 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:05.640 hair just right, and you're taking your time. Hopefully there's 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:07.880 no rush because you want to, like I. 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:09.800 Mean, there's for some reason, there's always a rush. I'm 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:12.560 always running behind. But you know, I work well under pressure, 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:14.800 so maybe that's part of it. I don't know. And 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:15.400 then on. 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:19.120 Comes big heavy metal jewelry, and then comes all the 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:20.720 piercings and you know what am I going to put 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:25.080 my ear holes? And then the clothing. Then you hop 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:28.240 into the back of an suv. Yeah, and they pull 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:31.800 up in front of the whatever theater where all the paparazzi. 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:34.960 Paparazzi's out front. It's going to be and you know 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:39.760 it's going to be a lightning flash or seventeen of flash. 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:43.960 What are you feeling? Right as the door opens and 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:50.000 you step that eight inch platform heel outside the suv 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:52.719 and you have to get from that truck to the 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:56.119 door and inside. What's it like that rush of going 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:58.039 through that red carpet? Do you know? 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:02.280 I think if I go back, like six seven years ago, 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:04.640 it used to kind of give me like I would 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:06.279 be excited, but it would also give me like a 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:08.320 little pang of anxiety, like because it was just a 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:11.480 lot of energy. But these days, I just I think 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:15.040 I've grown into it as best I can, and it 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:18.120 just feels like another day of what I do. And 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:20.760 I love getting dressed up, so it feels like, oh, 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:22.320 look what I could show off, what I did, what 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:25.960 I made, what I put together. You know, it doesn't 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:28.120 freak me out at all like it used to in 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:31.680 the beginning, right, So it feels good. It feels like, hey, 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:34.200 a lot of the photographers look familiar, you know, like, 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:36.400 hey guys, you know, it's kind of like I've gotten 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:36.920 used to it. 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:39.400 You know. There was a there was actually it was 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:43.240 the Grammys, and I was working with a news organization. 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:45.800 We were a first position, so people would stop at 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:47.760 us first, so we would interview them and talk about 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:50.480 what they were wearing on that bullshit there was one 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:53.280 artist who I'm not going to say who. She her name. 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:56.560 She had so much anxiety she had to get back 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:59.120 in the suv and lead. Oh and later on we 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:01.400 had a private moment talking about it, and she said 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:06.320 that it just it was just overwhelming for her. Yeah, 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:08.480 it just took her mentally to a place where she 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:10.360 can be. Yeah, it was a lot. It was a 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:13.760 rush of just fright because she knew as soon as 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:16.760 she made through made it through the photographers, she came 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:18.120 to us and we had questions. 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:20.400 She Yeah, sometimes it takes a second to kind of 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:25.560 like ground yourself afterwards, because it can be very like dizzying, 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:27.640 you know. I think for me, like, and I've talked 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:30.920 openly about this, like I'm I'm on medication for anxiety, 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:34.240 so that like that helps me so much deal with 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:36.800 all the crazy energy that comes out. It helps me 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:39.960 stay centered and grounded. So I feel like, you know, 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:41.960 and it's not for everybody, but I feel like, you know, 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:45.240 in talking about mental health stuff, I discovered a couple 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:47.439 of years ago, oh this is what anxiety is. I 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:49.640 didn't realize that I had been suffering from it for 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:52.840 so long. And so after like some therapy and you know, 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:56.120 some pharmaceutical help. It's like so much easier to go 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:59.720 to work now, it's like way more I can just 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:04.319 be the moment, which is so nice. 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:12.199 If you're a friend and said, hey, Adam, you've been 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:16.319 so vocal about your mental health and anxiety. I'm going 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:19.960 through that too, Convince me to do something about it, 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:23.480 because I can't tell the difference with just what's reality 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:25.120 and what I should be dealing with as a human 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:30.640 being versus what is over supercharged in my head. And 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:33.160 do you have an explanation you could give. Let's say, 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:33.480 if I. 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:35.640 Leave you as a friend, I mean, I would definitely say, like, 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:38.160 it's up to you, because I do think it's different 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:41.840 for everybody. Some people react really well to therapy and medication. 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:44.360 Some people don't want to be on a medication daily 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:46.520 like that bothers them. The idea of it bothers them, 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:48.920 or the physical feeling of it bothers them. I think 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:51.160 it's kind of to each their own, really, And there's 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:54.199 also a lot of other, you know, alternative therapies now 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:56.680 you know that they're coming up with that are very interesting. 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:59.600 So I don't know, I would say, like, is it 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:01.520 worth it? Is it worth suffering. I mean, is it 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.720 ruining your lifestyle? Is it getting in the way of 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:08.040 you enjoying yourself and being present in these amazing moments 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:08.480 or not. 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:11.439 You wonder, like, how many moments have I missed out 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:14.480 on because I just felt it better to stay home? Yeah, 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:15.680 because I just didn't want to deal. 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:17.360 With or I was in my head, or you know, 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:19.839 or I was thinking too much about what if? What if? 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:21.640 What if? You know? What are they thinking? What? 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:22.480 You know? 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:25.200 It's it. I think everyone's different, like I said, But 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:28.600 for me, I also didn't realize that I had any 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:32.160 sort of like issue. I just thought, Oh, I'm just stressed, 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:34.080 you know. Oh, I'm just in you know, I'm just 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:38.199 an overthinker, which is true. But like you know, when 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:40.680 I finally like hit the wall at one point, was 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:44.760 like getting panic attacks out of nowhere for no apparent reason. 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:47.199 I was like, oh, dang, Like this is more serious 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:49.000 than I thought. And I think as we get older, 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:52.240 our bodies change, and these things can be become worse 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:56.720 or become you know, more, you know, easily recognized than 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:59.480 we once recognized them. And once I found that to 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:02.080 be the case, I was like, well, Okay, let's get some. 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:04.199 Help, could you? And if I get too personal, just 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:04.960 say no, it's fine. 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:05.880 I'm pretty Would you. 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:09.200 Count the number of panic like serious attack panic attacks 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:11.320 you've had in your life on one two hands or I. 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:15.679 Never had one before in my entire life until like 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:19.360 twenty eighteen or nineteen. During that year, it was just 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:21.400 I think some of it was like burnout, like I 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:24.160 was working a lot and traveling a lot, and jet 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:25.960 lag will take it out of you. You know, it 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:28.600 will zap you. I mean, and from what I've learned, 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:31.280 like it actually attacks the you know, the chemical in 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:34.679 your brain that that that causes this anxiety thing when 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:36.960 it's out of whack. So I think it was a 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:39.880 combination of a lot of things. But that was when 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:43.160 it first started, and it was terrifying because I didn't 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:44.599 know what was going on. I didn't know why I 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:46.520 was having a panic attack. Half the time it was 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:49.880 for no apparent reason. It was literally just a physical reaction. 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:50.520 Isn't that weird? 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:52.800 It is weird because someone goes, well, why, and I'm like, 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:54.520 I don't know. It's not logical. 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:56.920 You can't. You can't announce the trigger. You can't. I've 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:59.480 had it. I've had two and I could absolutely And yeah, 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:01.600 I thought I was having a heart attack, right, because 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:03.760 I would, you know whatever, right, But you know what, 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:07.040 once you once you seek help, you learn, you learn 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:08.559 about it and you can learn how to. 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:11.120 Make and honestly like the pandemic, you know, it was 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:12.319 a lot of things for a lot of people. 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:12.760 It was. 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:15.480 There were a lot of disappointments associated with it. For me, 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:18.880 but also once I got over the disappointments, which was 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:21.360 my album Velvet that came out a week before everything 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:24.120 shut down, I was like, oh, but once I got 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:27.160 over that, it actually became a really beautiful time of 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:29.640 sort of self care and sort of getting back to 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:33.600 myself and you know, starting some creative projects, not on 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:35.800 a tight timeline, but being able to focus on them, 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:39.920 you know, and unencumbered and with full attention. And you know, 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:42.400 I think I'm grateful for that time. You know, I'm 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:44.560 grateful for the time off so that when I got 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:47.520 back into this career and our lifestyle that we're all 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:50.160 in hustling all the time, it like kind of gave 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:52.559 me new energy behind it. 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:55.040 And the things we learn from pandemic is learning how 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:57.440 to push a button shut it down. Yeah, and we 0:12:57.440 --> 0:12:58.160 didn't know that before. 0:12:58.280 --> 0:12:59.840 And it also like I think it reminded me of 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:03.120 priorities were like it kind of it got me back 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:07.120 in check with like the things that I need to 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:10.960 stay happy and content. And it's not all career stuff. 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:14.040 As much as I love what I do and I 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:15.680 put a lot of work and time into it, I 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:17.240 also was like, you know what, I need to maybe 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:19.840 balance this out with like my personal life a little 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:20.160 bit more. 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:23.160 I deserve that everyone needs to listen to that carefully 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:26.280 because it's very that balance thing. People hear that word balance. 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:29.800 I think we use that life professional balance conversation too much. 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:32.320 People don't hear it anymore. It's so important. 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:34.520 It's nice too, you know. I think I think it's 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:37.480 I think our lifestyle here in America is very like 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:40.240 hustle mentality. It's go go, go, go go. We won't 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:43.040 want to win, and there's a healthy amount of competition 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:45.640 that can be a great motivator. But I have some 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:48.520 friends over in Europe and there's other countries that like 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:51.160 collectively just look at certain things differently, like the way 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:54.320 of life is different. And my partner right now, he's Danish, 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:57.160 and like the in Denmark, like the Danish way of 0:13:57.200 --> 0:14:00.720 sort of life. There's a different emphasis on work, there's 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:05.880 a different emphasis put on competition and winning. It's it's 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:09.880 less emphasis, and they put more time and thought into 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:13.679 lifestyle and just enjoying themselves and sharing time with family. 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:17.000 And it's like, oh, and live longer. Probably probably they're 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:19.440 all one hundred and fifty years old over. I also 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:21.400 have a lot of rules for like healthier food and 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:23.520 all that. It's a beautiful place. I'm not saying that 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:26.320 I don't love being here, but you know, it's it's 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:28.320 just reminds you that there's other ways of doing things. 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:30.240 That's why it's important to have a passport to see 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:32.200 the world and see how they live and do a 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:35.080 lot in life. So you know what, ten years on 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:39.200 the road with Queen. Of course this meeting happened, thank god, 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:42.320 because of American idol, and these guys said, look, you 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:46.880 know what, no one else can do it like Adam Lambert. 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:50.880 I know, but you know, stepping into those those those shoes, 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:54.080 Freddie Mercury, you know, and you never came in and 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:55.880 wanted to be Freddie Mercury. You came in and you 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:58.600 were Adam Lambert with Queen and it's just worked out 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:00.960 so beautifully. But ten years it still go. And then 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:03.400 you said earlier that you just don't see you don't 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:06.200 see it the plug being pulled anytime soon, because people 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:07.920 are still selling out. People still come. 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:10.720 Yeah. I mean it's really like, you know, if Brian 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:14.960 and Roger wanted to do another tour, I mean, that's it, 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:17.120 that's all it takes. I mean, luckily people will still 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:19.480 want to come see us. And I mean we sold 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:22.240 out this North American tour that's coming up in October November. 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:24.360 We sold it out in like a day ish. 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:26.800 If you guys ever looked into the demographics of who's 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:28.480 coming to these shows, well. 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:30.440 I can see I look out in the audience a lot. 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:33.920 I really love you can see the hairstyles, yeah, or 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:37.520 the baldings exactly. But it's interesting because you know, we 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:40.640 were always pretty successful as a collaboration, and we were 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:43.720 selling really well for years. But then when the movie 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:47.440 came out, the Bohemian Rhapsody film, that like took things 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:49.440 into the stratosphere because all of a sudden you had 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:53.800 different generations, more of them. You know, I've never seen 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:56.840 so many young people at our shows until after that movie. 0:15:57.240 --> 0:15:59.840 It's amazing. I mean it's you know, in Europe, we 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:02.080 were on tour last summer. We did ten shows in 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:04.280 London at the O two and a bunch around Europe 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:08.240 and they had standing room on the floor, like you know, 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:11.600 the floor of these arenas and it was just like teenagers. 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:14.720 It was crazy and they're just like they love rock 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:17.960 and roll. It's it's almost like, I think, because it's 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:21.640 a generational thing, it's like they're discovering something new for them, right, 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:22.920 this classic rock thing too. 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:25.360 Don't tell them it's old, yeah, right right, brand new, 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:28.520 brand new from this new It's though, everyone. 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:30.040 Loves to discover music, and I think there's like this 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:32.600 resurgence of rock and roll right now, which is really cool. 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:35.280 So back to the movie. When you saw the movie, yeah, 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:38.840 did it? Did it shift anything in your mind and 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:41.960 how you performed with the guys? Did it change your 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:44.920 outlook on Queen? Where did you see it? For the 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:46.600 A lot of things to learn, a lot of things 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:47.720 for the first time that made you great? 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:50.120 I am I had heard a lot of those things before, 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:52.760 you know, I think being with them for the previous 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:54.720 what eight years before that movie, I guess it was 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:58.000 like eight years. I guess that was longer ago anyway, 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:00.000 being on the road for them for that long before 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:02.120 where the movie came out. I was actually on the 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:04.600 plane while they were planning the movie. I mean I 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:06.080 was like I was a fly on the wall. So 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:08.680 I wasn't surprised by anything. I was actually really excited 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:12.159 to see it all like come together. I thought the 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:16.800 music was so well like edited and like the music 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:19.240 really shown in that movie. I thought that was really 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:23.000 important is that their catalog of amazing hits was sort 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:25.359 of on display, you know that. I mean that's what 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:26.080 they're known for us. 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:29.080 That was really important. Oh, absolutely, But especially the scenes 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:32.280