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Jewish News: Hi Adam, nice to meet
you.
Adam Lambert: How are you?

JN: How are you?
AL: I'm very good. Thank you.

JN: Well, Adam, welcome to "the
Jewish mom" interview.
AL: Yaaayyy! My people. (Laughing
and opening his arms wide.)

JN: Speaking of your people, there are
some things your Jewish fans are curi-
ous about. Are both of your parents
Jewish?
AL: No, my mom is.

JN: The Rolling Stone article said you
dropped out of Hebrew school at age
5
AL: I think I was a little bit older
than 5. Probably like 9.

JN: How were you able to sing those
songs in Hebrew that everyone's lis-
tened to over the Internet?
AL: Oh. All phonetic. I don't speak
Hebrew. I wasn't bar mitzvahed,
unfortunately.

JN: So did your family celebrate the
holidays?
AL: We did celebrate Chanukah as
opposed to Christmas. So we stayed
true to our roots that way. And we
celebrated Passover occasionally. I
mean I hate to say it, but we were
kind of Jewish by form. Lightly
Jewish. Diet Jews. More of a heritage
thing.

(True to his heritage, and to the spirit
of tikkun olam, Adam has requested
that his fans donate to charity rather
than buying him gifts. For more on
his campaign to help support arts and
music in high-need public schools, go
to DonorsChoose.org/Adam Lambert.)

JN: I loved the version of Muse's
"Starlight" you sang on Good
Morning America and can't wait to
hear you perform it at tonight's con-
cert.
AL: Thank you.

JN: The song's lyric, "Black holes
and revelations!'
AL: Isn't that beautiful?

JN: What's the biggest black hole
you're afraid of falling into?
AL: Obscurity. That would be a
shame. That would be a real shame.
If I have anything to say about it, it

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IN: What's the biggest revelation
you've had?
AL: You know, at the risk of sounding
a little bit cliché, that anything's pos-
sible. I really think that, to a point,
if you dream something and really
visualize it, I think that it can come
true. I really do believe that now.

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(The AI publicist has her back to me.
I surreptitiously ask Adam if he can
autograph my copy of "Rolling Stone"
with him on the cover. "Ye-ah," he
laughs, as he signs it with the Sharpie
pen I've brought for the occasion.
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IN: I know your morn's going to be
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AL: She's going to be helping me
with administrative stuff. Yeah.

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IN: What's the best piece of unsolic-
ited advice she's given you lately?
AL: You know, it's funny [but] my
morn doesn't give me a lot of advice
these days. I think it's kind of in the
vein of an unspoken kind of advice.
It's more of a support thing. My dad's
really Mr. Advice.

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IN: How is your family dealing with
all the peripheral fame that comes
along with all of this?
AL: I think they're doing a pretty
good job. Obviously, it's a big adjust-
ment because there are people trying
to get to me through them some-
times, and it's not something that
anybody's ever prepared to deal with,
I don't think. It's interesting (laughs)
... pretty interesting.

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IN: There's always one parent who's
like that.
AL: Yeah, yeah yeah. My dad's my
teacher. Teacher-parent.

IN: You have fans that range from age
8 to 80. Do you have grandparents
who are alive to see everything that's
happening to you?
AL: Unfortunately, both of my mom's
parents have passed away. My dad's
parents are both alive, and they've
been blown away by everything that's
been going on. I saw my grandma at
one of the California shows. I think
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