The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don't believe you get wiser because you get older. It's a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously

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

A difficult crowd will always test your true ability.

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

The most political thing you can do is be yourself

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

The Taboo scene was a kind of deconstructed version of the New Romantics. The Taboo crowd was using a lot of the visual ideas that had already been used. I remember the first time I spotted Leigh Bowery and Trojan parading around in clubs: They were in their "Pakis from Outer Space" look, and the makeup was quite similar to one of my old looks, because I was quite fond of wearing blue, green, or yellow foundation, and so I was pretty dismissive of them at first.