My mother was a housewife. Both from - well, my father was from a farming family, agricultural family in the north of England. And my mother came from a very working class.

I think that the history of rock could be recycled in a different way and brought back into focus without the luggage that comes along with it.

I woke up one day and realized I was a closet hetero

Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn't see a space in which we could get anything together.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.

I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker.