That divide between the rich and poor is so crazy, because even white kids are suffering now.

Culturally, I found myself in a very weird situation: you were the person that had made that journey to the West, and then you were going back to comment on something, and then suddenly you were questioned and told, "You can't touch that now because you're a pop star."

That divide between the rich and poor is so crazy, because even white kids are suffering now.

When I first came out, I was a film student and my mom sewed clothes. I was already doing a million things then, whatever it took to survive. If I had to braid someone's hair to get one pound for my lunch money, that's what I did. But I did it in the most creative way possible.

That's what's inspiring to me - finding someplace where people haven't already seen themselves in a certain light.

Here we are at the edge of the world, the very edge of Western civilization, and all of us are so desperate to feel something, anything, that we keep falling into each other and f*****g our way toward the end of days.

I feel so terrible for the kids now. In London, even people in their forties can't afford to buy a house or have kids.