I was about 16 when punk started to happen. It was so exciting. You had a social depression going on in the U.K. There was a sanitation strike. London was really grim, gray. You had Margaret Thatcher coming in. It was a really revolutionary time.

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.

People say things about me all the time and I get over it. I've had some appalling things told about me.

The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don't believe you get wiser because you get older. It's a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously

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

There's this illusion that homosexuals have sex and heterosexuals fall in love. That's completely untrue. Everybody wants to be loved.

Personality is a real aphrodisiac, when somebody is charming or funny. I think certain jobs attract certain types of people.