I was the one who taught my sister and my niece how to walk in high heels.

I live my life openly and freely every day anyway, and do what I want to do, but I don't take any great risks.

There's a lot of me in Captain Jack and there's a lot of Captain Jack in me. And there is no pun intended.

Many things shaped my identity as a young boy: a strong selfworth (something that was instilled in all three Barrowman siblings by our parents), my immersion in theatre and music, and my DNA. I was born gay. It's not a choice I – or anyone else who is gay – made. If it were, why on earth would anyone choose to be part of a minority, part of a group that in so many cultures and countries, even in the twenty-first century, is regularly blasphemed, hounded and worse?

What I can say that's different in American television… in Britain, they wouldn't cancel something after a couple of episodes. In the States they would. They would just decide it's not working, take it off and put something else in on the fall schedule.

I don't think nudity is a bad thing, I don't think people should be embarrassed about their bodies, and I don't mind whipping it out.

I don't call myself an actor, I call myself an entertainer, because I don't just do one thing.