“ “For me, Ed is one of my closest friends and he’s the person who, when I have an issue I’m going through, when I have some kind of conflict going on, I call him first before anyone else [...] I’ll walk into the room and be like, ‘what do you think of this outfit for the show next week?’ And he’ll be like, ‘you look like a blackjack dealer, he’s going to tell me my outfit looks bad, he’s going to tell me if my song isn’t good enough and those are the people that I want to bounce ideas off.” ”