Thomas Neuwirth, as Conchita Wurst in the Eurovision song Contest, to win, to sing, to the music of Celine Dion to listen to, he said Friday, with Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant.

“Dion told me: you are not hard right in front of you to scream with all the power that you have,” says Neuwirth. “If you’re so hard to sing, kún, you do not fake it: it’s the sound that you get out of your body works, it’s the sound of your body is unique, and by definition, a real one. Celine Dion has taught me that singing is something physically, it is.”

finally, Neuwirth says that he’s ” My Heart Will Go On in his head, learned to play when he’s out of the closet it came out. “They gave me, as it were, to consent to be nice and dramatic and over-the-top.”

With the song Rise Like A Phoenix and won the artist like Conchita Wurst in the 2014 Eurovision song Contest. At this point, he is seen as a member of the jury of the first season of the German reality tv series Queens of Drag.