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.

Taboo was kind of celebrating trash, the kind of records you secretly loved, like Yes Sir, I Can Boogie, by Baccara [laughs] - things that you probably shouldn't like.

I'm very uncomfortable with the idea of vaginas. They bother me in the way that spiders bother some people.

The New Romantic scene was so tiny. Although it got lots of mileage in the media, it was a really small club with only a core group of people. As it got more popular, kids started to come from the suburbs all dressed up, but it -really wasn't as big as it looked.

When you go onstage, you go on there to have a good time, and you smile and you engage with the audience and you invite them in.

I try to exist in a world where there is freedom of opinion, where you're allowed to make jokes. I don't want to live in some PC world where no-one's allowed to say anything.

For me, touring is about looking after myself.