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.

My family knew I was gay when I was 15, long before I got famous. But it's a very different thing coming out to your family and coming out to the universe. That's a big step. Maybe without me, there wouldn't be Adam Lambert. Without Bowie, there wouldn't be me. Without Quentin Crisp, there wouldn't have been Bowie. So everything is part of a big daisy chain.

I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.

Very few people can truly divorce themselves from what they feel emotionally and sexually.

Leigh Bowery created outfits that made him look deformed, which was very brave. I believe this was the main thing that gave Leigh his edge. His designs were often breath-taking, but it was the way he used his body that was so utterly new and refreshing.

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.

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