As a kid, I would've loved to get a tweet from David Bowie or Joan Rivers or Tom Cruise. It's great that you can communicate with people and it's instant.

[Getting older is] experience but it's also changing your mindset.

I find that most people [in social media] just want me to say "happy birthday" to their mom or wish them good luck with their exams.

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

Very few people can truly divorce themselves from what they feel emotionally and sexually.

The world is less homophobic, depending on where you are in the world... As a gay man I feel very strongly about those issues around the world - there've been huge changes and developments, but there are still places where things are scary.

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