I think after time goes by and you earn certain rights or you break through certain barriers, you could sometimes, maybe, take it for granted what you have now that you didn't have before. And then that would lead to a certain lack of community, in a way, caring in a way, that I saw before [in gay society].

I suffered fools so gladly.

Publicly humiliating someone for your own gain will only come and haunt you. God's going to have his revenge.

David Bowie really played with ideas, and iconography and imagery. He's brilliant man. And a gentleman, too.

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.

Romance should be spontaneous, but in my career I'm totally in control.

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.