Certainly for me, when punk exploded in the 1970s, it was just great. We had these wonderful clothes to wear. We could do great things with our hair. We had protest badges that read "I belong to the Blank Generation." It was such a great time to be a kid.

Drugs became an obsession, like Culture Club had been, like religion later became although I'm through with that now.

She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.

In writing the autobiography, I can really chuckle when I look at the songs. I was acting out the part. I saw myself as a victim.

You have to watch what you eat.

The best thing you can do is work on your personality because we're all gonna get ugly.

The world is less homophobic, depending on where you are in the world... As a gay man I feel very strongly about those issues around the world - there've been huge changes and developments, but there are still places where things are scary.