If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything.

Getting paid for being laid, guess that's the name of the game.

But until we get rid of that shame, then people are going to stay underground, they are not going to get tested, and we're facing an uphill battle [with AIDS].

I've watched other people singing, I've become a much better singer. I've become a singer that plays the piano instead of a piano player that sings.

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

In the '50s you weren't taught about sex whatsoever. It was never just talked about. People used to snoop behind their curtains and look at the neighbors. And if a girl became pregnant in your part of the world, she was shipped off to the countryside.

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