I think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. ...Nobody really sells records anymore.

Part of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we're losing our individuality.

I wasn't part of the Taboo crowd the same way I was part of the New Romantics. I suppose I was seen more as an elder statesman because I had been around the London club scene for so many years. To the Taboo crowd I was really seen as a pop star, someone famous.

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.

I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.

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

My family knew I was gay when I was 15, long before I got famous. But it's a very different thing coming out to your family and coming out to the universe. That's a big step. Maybe without me, there wouldn't be Adam Lambert. Without Bowie, there wouldn't be me. Without Quentin Crisp, there wouldn't have been Bowie. So everything is part of a big daisy chain.