Tupac the son of the Black Panther, and Tupac the rider. Those are the two people inside of me. I was raised off those ideals.

Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.

I feel that the name Queen actually fitted that time. It lent itself to a lot of things, like the theatre, and it was grand. It was very pompous, with all kinds of connotations. It meant so much. It wasn't just one precise label. I was certainly aware of the gay connotations, but that was just one facet of it.

I thought up the name Queen early on. It couldn't have been King; it doesn't have the same ring or aura as Queen.

But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.

One of the challenges we set up for 'Puscifer' was to come up with a core identity and see how far we can push it.