I think people could be a bit friendlier. The only real contact you have with people is when they're annoyed if you've had a party - you know, it's been a bit too noisy for them or something.

For me, I've gotten better at that since I've gotten older. I never was good at that when I was younger.

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 was about 16 when punk started to happen. It was so exciting. You had a social depression going on in the U.K. There was a sanitation strike. London was really grim, gray. You had Margaret Thatcher coming in. It was a really revolutionary time.

Warren Street was at the high end of the New Romantic scene. They were mostly college art students and people who knew top designers.

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.

I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.