Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, 'that’s like all the cocaine I sniffed.'

I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just started banging away and semi-studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music but sort of half-heartedly.

People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste.

On Keith Richards: He's like a monkey with arthritis.

I'm very relaxed. I have a family, I have a partner of 20 years, I have a wonderful life; nothing could be better.

The ugliest woman you'll ever meet, but she's mine and she's ugly.

Dave and I as a couple seem to be the acceptable face of gayness, and that's great. I've got to use that power to try and do what I can - or we have - to try to make the situations in Russia and Poland better.