You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships.

And there are men behind bars who pray for the light and there are men in the suburbs who pray for the night.

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.

I'm glad I've given up drugs and alcohol. It would be awful to be like Keith Richards. He's pathetic. It's like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go onstage and look young.

Blue jean baby, LA lady, seamstress for the band. Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man. Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand.

The French are useless. They can't organize a piss-up in a brewery.

I'm not bored with my life. I'm not just making the records and touring, I would find that boring.