Poor cow, you'll get your dumb man. You'll see your whole life coming at you in the back of his hand.

We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.

I was sitting in the classroom trying to look intelligent in case the teacher looked at me.

When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis.

But we came for the Kennedy Center Awards, which was an incredible honor. Being a British person, I was bestowed this honor. And my partner and I, David, came. And we were so pleasantly surprised by George Bush and his knowledge of AIDS. He really - he treated David and I - and Laura - treated us like - they were so friendly and so courteous.

To forgive and be forgiven, if it's the last thing I do, then in death's release I may find the peace that in life I never knew.

And I trusted someone to look after me on the business side of life.