We need to get past the point where being black and a male means that I am likely to mug you for your wallet, likely to have a minus 15 on my IQ, likely to not go to college and likely to wear my pants below my arse.

I've been captivated by the idea of being on a basketball court and being surrounded by people who made me look a little bit less like a freak.

We need to accept that some people are camp and some people are butch. Some people are pretty and some people are average, but we all fit.

I consider myself a pretty rounded guy. I've done pretty elite things in business, sport and academics and all of a sudden I woke up one morning and I'm a 'big, black, British, gay guy'. That was frustrating at times.

I would just never want to have someone come out for the greater good who was a celebrity and then find them slipping into like Lohanville with alcohol or drugs or something else just because they couldn't cope.

I'm a nerd. I like to sit in the library. I don't like to sweat.

You can't be a part-time man of principle.