This is a tremendous assest for the club, a tremendous headache lifted from our shoulders, really.

You can call me a fat, balding, talentless old queen who can't sing, but you can't tell lies about me.

We have a society where every hit maker and TV presenter is gay.

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

When I say I don't have to write pop songs anymore, there's no way I'm going to get on the radio at 60 years of age unless I'm doing a duet with [Lady] Gaga or I was on All of the Lights, which was a Kanye West record that managed to get on the radio.

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

I'm not going to Russia and tell them to go to hell and think - that's not the way things are done. You chip away at something and you hope that there will be dialogue and that the situation can get better. You don't just go in there with guns blazing and say well, to hell with you because they're going to say to hell with you and get out of the country.