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.

I'm not responsible enough to have a dog - or a child.

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

I just go in my back garden. It's the only place where people don't come and bother you.

The Taboo crowd was certainly less precious. They were happy to end up in a pile of vomit and booze at the end of the night. It was antifashion, in a sense. They were just as obsessive as the New -Romantics but they acted like they didn't care.

On Madonna: She's a gay man trapped in a woman's body.

Warren Street was at the high end of the New Romantic scene. They were mostly college art students and people who knew top designers.