I feel like my career has always been a series of collisions and accidents. Being in the right place at the right time. Having the right haircut. It's so mad to think that it happened in the way that it happened.

There's this illusion that homosexuals have sex and heterosexuals fall in love. That's completely untrue. Everybody wants to be loved.

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.

When I go onstage, I'm going to work ...I feel like my performance is about an emotional connection. I want to connect with people, whether it's like a romantic song or a happy song.

I also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records.

The band never actually split up - we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways.

Leigh [Bowery] obviously loved having me in the club because I would attract media, and he loved and lived for his column inches.