I knew that this was what I wanted to talk about on stage. There was no point being coy about it, or pretending that I wasn't gay. That was the substance of my whole act. If you took that away, there would be nothing left

The bullying was hideous and relentless, and we turned it round by making ourselves celebrities.

However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.

I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.

A lot of gay men have a lot of sex. That's what we do. But I've stopped all that-the revolving door into my bedroom. Promiscuity. That was of its day, really.

I'm not sure how aware of the rest of the world I am. I live a rather sheltered existence

I knew that this was what I wanted to talk about on stage. There was no point being coy about it, or pretending that I wasn't gay. That was the substance of my whole act. If you took that away, there would be nothing left