Certain punk bands were influential because I thought, If they can do that then I can .Hanging around those bands was how I started my first band - In Praise of Lemmings.

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

She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.

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

I was really good friends with Matthew Ashman, the guitarist in Bow Wow Wow. He died, unfortunately. He was one of my best friends during my sort of punk period.

Leigh [Bowery] would create fake guest lists and put the most ridiculous names on them - Joan Collins, or really naff soap stars who would never grace the door of Taboo.

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.