In fact, he [George Michael] was loitering in public loos like some pre-war homosexual. It's one thing to keep quiet. It's another to pretend you're someone you're not.

Sometimes indifference can be so erotic. I think the people who are most dismissive of you get the most of your attention.

I find that most people [in social media] just want me to say "happy birthday" to their mom or wish them good luck with their exams.

You get the odd person [in social media] that will write something nasty and the trick is not to engage with them on any level.

One door closes and another one opens.

The fabulous side of Taboo was dressing up and dancing like no one was watching you. There were no rules. You had Jeffrey Hinton playing every kind of music. It was like going back to when I used to deejay at Planet in '79, where you'd mix in nutty things like hip-hop or reggae or The Sound of Music [1965] or other film soundtracks - whatever.

I mean, Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, I think the young kids sell lot of records. But for an older kind of artist, more of a sort of heritage, vintage type of artist, you have to think outside the box.