Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays. From my point of view, I would ban religion completely. Organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into really hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.

I can't talk about - as eloquently as everyone else about a prevention or medicine or, you know, funding, but I can talk about the human element, which is the main part of AIDS, because it comes to the human being and how they are being treated, what medicines they are on and what medicines they are not on.

Simon Cowell and I are great friends and we wind each other up. Rod Stewart and I do the same thing.

Sweet freedom whispered in my ear, you're a butterfly, and butterflies are free to fly, fly away, high-away, bye-bye.

My old man is drunker than a barrel full of monkeys, but my old lady she don't care.

For me music is so passionate. I have to give it my all every time I go onstage.

I don't have a computer. I am the Luddite of rock'n'roll, I don't have a portable phone. I write things down.