When I first went to New York, I didn't really go out to clubs. It was the height of Culture Club so I didn't really have a social life. It was only after I had been to New York a few times that I started going out.

A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.

I like the big bombastic singers, but I'm also very drawn to what I call character singers. They're people who obviously aren't very huge singers, but they've got this ability to tell a story and touch you emotionally without really using any kind of histrionics or special effects.

I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.

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

You have to eat at a certain time and eat properly.

I think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. ...Nobody really sells records anymore.