You get the odd person [in social media] that will write something nasty and the trick is not to engage with them on any level.

Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I'd had to tell them.

I was really good friends with Matthew Ashman, the guitarist in Bow Wow Wow. He died, unfortunately. He was one of my best friends during my sort of punk period.

I started going to Madame Louise's, the lesbian club where all the punk bands used to go - the Sex Pistols, the Clash. I remember seeing Billy Idol walk in there; he was gorgeous.

The band never actually split up - we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways.

You get the odd person [in social media] that will write something nasty and the trick is not to engage with them on any level.

Being in the Boy Scouts, you don't think about whether people are gay or straight. You're busy putting up tents and learning to cut sausages.