Most of my influences are from the past.

I'd got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.

When you go onstage, you go on there to have a good time, and you smile and you engage with the audience and you invite them in.

I'm always tweeting about food and things that I've made.

I felt that making records in a traditional way - putting them out in the same way, wasting loads of money - was just a pointless exercise.

Part of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we're losing our individuality.

Voting for New Labour is like helping an old lady across the road while screaming 'Get a move on!' Even the Tories, who you could once rely on to be completely heartless are pretending to care.