When I was I younger I didn't want to be gay. Not because I was scared of the sexual thing; I didn't want to be a clone. Now this was in the late '70s.

A lot of what used to be known as gay culture - broadly speaking, homoeroticism and being camp - has been brought into mainstream culture. I think we should be moving to an era where it's just sex.

I think we've come a long way since then. The big thing that changed was when ecstasy came along in Britain.

I think there's an element where people get very comfortable in their ghetto. Which is fair enough.

There's the paradox of making pop music when you're in your 50s. People weren't meant to be doing that originally and yet they are. Mick Jagger [used to say] we're not going to be doing Satisfaction when I'm in a wheelchair.

I didn't want to wear a checked shirt and grow a mustache - that's what you had to do, and everyone did.

I think the world should be one community.