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.

Because some people have sex with people of the same sex, an entire culture has been created, broadly speaking, out of oppression. Which in a rational world would not be an issue.

We hope we are moving toward a world where sexual orientation is not an issue, because we hate the idea of a gay ghetto. I think that it's a real shame that people become restricted by their sexuality or define their whole lives by their sexuality.

She's a very charismatic character, and she holds the whole play together.

It's fundamental that what we do only exists in our own universe. When you like Pet Shop Boys, you are in our world.

I've got the brains, you've got the looks, let's make lots of money

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