From his Rolling Stone cover interview,”Why can’t some men have strong feminine sides? Does that make them less of a man? I don’t know why our society has such an emphasis on masculinity and femininity–it’s really gross. I don’t think you’re truly sexy until you don’t care about that.”

Also from an interview last night: “I’ve loved David Bowie since I was a kid [and] artists like Michael Jackson, Prince [and] Mick Jagger,” Adam told Access Hollywood’s Tony Potts at the Los Angeles premiere of “This Is It” on Tuesday night. “There’s a lot of male rock stars in history that have kind of played with androgyny and I [am] just fascinated by that look so I wanted to do something like that for the album cover.”

The guy’s got a crazy awesome voice, a brain crammed full of creativity when it comes to presentation and performance, and a surprisingly earnest and funny demeanor offstage. I adore his album cover in all its retro glammy glory, and I really hope his music does well enough that he can continue to push the boundaries and blur the lines of gender expectations.