Quotes from Conchita Wurst

I dream of a world where we don't have to talk about unnecessary things like sexuality, who you love.

Seriously I just don't get why straight people are so afraid of the fact that gay people can get married.

We Europeans really have the picture of this very open-minded Australia.

I am happy being a man in a dress. Some people get confused and think I'm a trans woman, but I'm strict about the difference. What I do is performance, it's staged, it's glamour - it's not real life. But for trans people, being born in the wrong body - there's nothing glamorous or easy about that.

It was a huge honour to play at the Palladium with the BBC Concert Orchestra.

Be the best version of yourself rather than a bad copy of someone else!

My biggest inspiration in 'fashion is definitely Miss Victoria Beckham.

From Vienna with Love' will build a bridge across the globe from Vienna to Sydney, full of music, love and fun. I am really looking forward to performing with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and fabulous guest artists who all have ties to Vienna and telling a story with music that inspired me and songs from my debut album.

But yes, I really feel great in Austria, I love my home and Vienna is just the best place to be.

Being a teenager, a gay teenager, in such a small village is not that much fun. I am part of the gay community and most gays have a similar story to mine.

Being a teenager in a small Austrian village was not fabulous. I tried to fit in and changed myself to be part of the game. I now realise I can create the game.

I grew up in a small Austrian village, a quite conservative one, and I was the weird little boy always dressing as a girl.

When not dressed as Conchita I am a man, and a lazy one at that.

As I always say, you don't have to love me, but you have to respect that I'm here.

I find it hard to believe when people tell me I inspired them in any kind of way because I think to myself, 'well, why?' It's just me - not Madonna.