I've had to write in a different way because I'm not in a bad place and I'm not heartbroken, so there's no one I want revenge on.

She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.

I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.

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

I suppose all of those New Romantic clubs were quite up their own asses in a way. Well, Taboo was up its own ass in a different way, but not in terms of rules.

I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.

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.