Frankie Grande

We are out safe. Thank you to @LAFD for getting us up alerting us to the evacuation so early efficiently, my thoughts prayers are with everyone affected by these fires. I pray all our homes families continue to be safe as the fires rage on...

I am a new man, and the man you see before you is the one I was always meant to be. This decision to be sober is a lifetime decision.

i-am you man decision

Opening presents at midnight on Christmas Eve - midnight! As soon as it turns to Christmas Day, we're opening those gifts.

day opening christmas midnight

My favorite vacation destination is Hawaii.

favorite hawaii vacation destination

I was Boots The Monkey in 'Dora The Explorer Live Dora's Pirate Adventure,' and it was the greatest!

monkey live boots adventure

I try very hard to live my life in an exemplary way, which is, you know, 'Shine bright like Frankie.'

shine my-life you life

I got the first Nintendo system, and me and my mother would stay up and play it together for hours and hours and hours - mainly Super Mario Brothers and Mario Kart!

me mother together play

I like singing Bruce Springsteen.

bruce-springsteen bruce like singing

If you happen to be in an environment where people are not accepting of who you are, you just need to know that's not always the way it will be.

know you people way

The party life that had once given me so much confidence and comfort had turned into a nightmare where I never felt more alone.

alone me confidence life

After the tragic events of Manchester, with the senseless loss of life and the fear that came from knowing my family was unsafe and that I was completely powerless to protect them, I went to a very dark place with no tools to handle the feelings that came along with the devastation of the attack.

family fear dark life

I am here today as an example to all that have gone through a personal hell or are going through it right now, whatever that hell might be for you, that you can become whole again. In fact, you can become stronger than you ever thought possible.

i-am you hell today

My mom. My grandma, my grandfather. We have a very strong, strong line of amazing people in the family. Very strong women.

women family mom people

My mother is a rock. She's my rock, she's Ariana's rock, and she has been a huge example of how to get through some difficult situations with strength, dignity, her head held high.

high dignity strength mother

Having this message of sobriety and recovery to blast out into the world is also very powerful and kind of the reason why I'm on this planet, I think; it's one of my purposes.

think powerful reason world

I can pretty much name and rattle off the genus and species of all the bugs you see in everyday life.

name you i-can life

Anything that has a dragon, a wand, pixie dust, fairies, magic, any of that, I love it. I'm obsessed with it, I will read it, I will watch it, I will commit it to memory.

will memory magic love

I remember being so nervous to tell my little sister. I was like, 'I have something to tell you... I'm gay.' And she was like, 'Cool, do you have a boyfriend?' And I was like, 'Yeah,' and she was like, 'When do I get to meet him?' I was, like, 'Really? It's that simple?' So it went really well.

cool you sister simple

There's a lot of audience participation in 'Rock of Ages' and 'Rocky Horror.'

rock participation audience horror

I love breaking the fourth wall, and being given permission to play with the audience!

being audience play love