I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life, I love the food, I love the people, I love the attitudes of Italians.

As a child, as a teenager, I was kind of not allowed to wear fashionable clothes.

And there's no guarantee that if you get HIV and you take these triple therapies, or whatever comes along next, that they're going to be successful for you.

I've got that resilient thing inside me. But I wasn't a happy bunny.

And the stigma hasn't really changed that much in 31 years. You are still getting people - it's a shame-based disease. It's based on sexual transmission. And it's still shame-based. And until people feel strong enough and feel loved enough to actually open up and say, listen, I'm HIV-positive, then we are facing an uphill battle.

I didn't sleep with anyone till I was 23.

We can't keep thinking of gay people as being ostracised; we can't keep thinking of Muslim people as being [ostracised] because of the fundamentalism that occurs in Islam. Muslim people have to do something about speaking up about it. We can't judge a book by its cover.