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'm basically a control freak. It's not because I want to be. I'm not at all into the power play that's involved in it.

I also think I could probably repeat the commercial success; whether I want to or not is a different matter. I think there is still better work inside me.

I truly believed that tonight would never happen, that I would never sing these songs to you again. But then I'm a fool, which you've probably worked out by now.

I would advise any gay person that being out in the real sense can never happen too soon.

Basically I see that song as a bunch of images which I threw together to represent the fact that I was seeing one girl and then I started seeing another, and it was just the guilt in between those two periods. The ballads I've written since have been about things that really hurt me.

Playing with Queen was the biggest moment of my career. It was like living a childhood fantasy.