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.

50 percent of the people I perform for have come to scream at me and the other 50 percent have come to listen to the music.

I want to make a pop album - something more upbeat than my stuff was in the '90s.

I'd never touch anything. I think it's foolhardy to play around with the face that you've been given. To have a little snip or a tuck, I think, is really quite obscene.

I have definitely reached the same level as Madonna in terms of sales. I'm really pleased about that.

I think my idea of a perfect romance is when two people really belong to each other.

I'm perfectly happy to admit that insecurity. It doesn't bother me. It's there, just the same as the color of my eyes is there. I'm never going to get rid of it. I'm not going to wake up one morning and really like the way I look, but as long as other people like the way I look, that's fine.