A lot of people come up to me all the time and say thank you for helping me be who I am. So my thing wasn't just about sexuality. It was about anyone who felt different; anyone who felt out of place. Being gay was one part of it.

And being gay isn't so easy, either I've always said that if anyone ever thought I was straight they must need glasses - but when I finally came out and said, "Yes, I do sleep with men and I'm gay," yeah, I lost record sales. There's no question - big, big time.

Sometimes indifference can be so erotic. I think the people who are most dismissive of you get the most of your attention.

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

I don't get all this Speedo stuff actually, I mean, whatever happened to the feather boa?

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.

I am what I am. There's nothing I can do about it.