Someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear, you almost had your hooks in me, didn't you dear?

I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with a piano.

When your persona begins to take over your music and becomes more important, you enter a dangerous place. Once you have people around you who don't question you, you're in a dangerous place.

Well, I've had my fair share in Britain of battling the tabloids.

I went up to Prince and said 'I'm a big fan of your stuff' and he looked at me and just walked off...left me standing there like a ****. He's a prat, but a clever prat.

And the danger is - and it's happening - is we're seeing an incredibly big rise amongst young gay people, young heterosexual people as far as catching HIV, which is, you know, in an educated country like this or in Britain, it's frightening.

I am the most well-known homosexual in the world.