I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.

Life's too short to be bitter, I'm too short to be bitter.

Don't go for second best. Put your love to the test.

I'm a gay man trapped in a woman's body!

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

I see a huge paradox in me - the intense need to be loved and the search for approval juxtaposed with the need to nurture other people, to be the mother I never had.

I hope my child will be a good Catholic like me.