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

You should always celebrate your successes because someone else will celebrate your failures.

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

To a certain extent, this tour is a celebration of individuality and that you can invent and reinvent yourself. You should have the power to be able to do that. Sexuality is a part of that. It should release you. It doesn't have to be an issue. It shouldn't box you in.

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.

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

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.