Happiness is the only thing I understand.

I came first to America in 1977 at the invitation of a man who wanted to make my life story into a musical. But my agent said it was not to be and it was never done. So I went back, but I'd seen New York, and I wanted to live there. Because everybody talks to you in the street. See, nobody talks to you in England.

All America is much the same.

When asked, 'Shall I tell my mother I'm gay?', I reply, 'Never tell your mother anything.

Style, in the broadest sense of all, is consciousness. More specifically it is a consistent idiom arising spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.

England is very dreary, but I'm a people person.

To lose is not always failure.