In an interview with The Sunday Times, Sam Smith opened up about his gender identity, saying he doesn’t consider himself a cisgender (or, one who considers themselves one specific gender in the correct body).

“I feel just as much woman as I am man,” he explained. He also said he likes dressing in drag, and that he hits up the Australian drag shop House of Priscilla when he’s in Sydney.

“Oh, my god, I just buy everything — heels, dresses,” he said. “We have a great time. There was one moment in my life where I didn’t own a piece of male clothing, really. I would wear full make-up every day in school, eyelashes, leggings with Dr. Martens and huge fur coats, for 2 ½ years.”

On coming out as gay: “Looking back on it, it was the fear of saying the wrong thing and offending … And I was 19 when I started writing the first album. I’d just moved to London from a village — I was literally the only gay in the village. I didn’t know what I wanted to say.”

Read more at The Sunday Times.