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.

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

The big gay clubs like Heaven started having mixed nights in the late '80s.

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.

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

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