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 always feel that my whole life is representing the LGBT community. It's kind of what I do all the time.

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

Don't talk about things you don't like. Talk about music that you love, books that you've read. I put a lot of recipes online.

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.

Leigh [Bowery] obviously loved having me in the club because I would attract media, and he loved and lived for his column inches.

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.