My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven't. I am grateful to them for that.

I never had a moral problem with being gay.

Yeah, I'm going to need a leather jacket for when I'm on my hog and need to go into a controlled slide.

Still, the music was always there, and the lyrical capability was always threatening to show its head.

Everything was meant to wind people up [in Make It Big ]. I don't know why we had this great pleasure in winding people up, but we really did think they would get the joke. And it backfired on us.

Me, I don’t want any children, I don’t want responsibility. I am gay, I smoke weed and I do exactly what I want in my life because of my talent. I represent an ideal which others have had to let go and they blame me for that. Especially men.

My music is some of the most honest music that's been released and I think that's why people buy it.