I've always been very chauvinistic, even in my boy-obsessed days. But I was always a gentleman. I alwaysd treated my boys like real ladies. Always escorted them properly and, in fact, I suppose if I were a lot older - like 40 or 50 - I'd be a wonderful sugar daddy to some little queen down in Kensington. I'd have a houseboy named Richard to order around.

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.

People are always throwing things at me that I've said and I say that I didn't mean anything.

I once asked [John] Lennon what he thought of what I do. He said 'it's great, but its just rock and roll with lipstick on'.

Elvis is English, and climbs the hills. Can't tell the bullshit from the lies.

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.'

Radio in England is nonexistent. It's very bad English use of a media system, typically English use.