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

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.

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

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

We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.

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.

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.