I think life on the road really suits very egotistical men. It's set up for kings.

I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.

I wanted to create something that was quite edgy and belonged to me. It wasn't about my sexual orientation, because I'm heterosexual. It was saying that appearance is just temporary, and I want to be as strong as a man.

Just having medicine isn't equivalent to medical care. You need the health systems, you need to create the social framework so that people feel safe.

In memory, you can access something from the past, anything that you've experienced that you remember - it's there. Now, you might have a memento of it in a photograph or in a film or a building or some clothes that you wore. There might be something that connects you to this memory. But all of us are just all caught in this time, whatever that is.

You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding.

Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.