I was about 16 when punk started to happen... It felt like you had this naive idea that you could change things just by wearing something.

You have to eat at a certain time and eat properly.

I think drugs played a big role in the Taboo scene. People were taking copious amounts of ecstasy, which had filtered over from New York, and at a certain point you were more likely to spend most of the night in the toilets at the club.

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.

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

We changed the name from Sex Gang Children to Culture Club because Jon Moss, our drummer, went to L.A. on holiday and took some demo tapes with him. -Everyone loved the music but nobody liked the name. I -remember getting a postcard from Jon from L.A. saying, "I don't think America's ready for the Sex Gang Children."

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.