I don't think I did anything that my contemporaries didn't; it was just that I was the only one who talked about it. In the Sixties anyone who had a sense of style seemed to be gay. I wanted to indentify with that.

I don't like people probing into my life, so I reveal as little as possible or lie about it as much as need be so as to give them something to write about.

In fact, in Europe, I'm more kind of this bloke what writes lots of stuff.

I'm drawn between the light and dark.

I really wanted to do, more than anything else, up until I was around 16, 17, was write musicals.

Things have to hit for the moment. That's one of the reasons I'm into video; the image has to hit immediately. I adore video and the whole cutting up of it.

It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.