It's so easy to find someone who would walk around me like a shadow and do everything for me and never be tempted by other men, so obviously I'm not attracted by that type.

I had a very important personal point to make with this song [I Want Your Sex]. I just hated the idea that lust and forbidden excitement could only come with sleaze and strangers.

It's really difficult trying to find the line where you don't piss anybody off.

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.

I never had a moral problem with being gay.

By the time I was in my early teens, we were able to move into a much more middle-class area. I had a comfortable adolescence.

There are very few things in my life that I can't have if I want them. So when I see something that I can't have, immediately I'm obsessed by it.