The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster scale.

In the music business, to survive for so long, you have to be able to cut off from your emotions sometimes. And being a father, you're faced with that situation. I know that my father was, with me. I understand why he had to be distant, because to rip yourself away, time after time, is almost more devastating.

I like to make the mundane fabulous whenever I can.

I knew I was gay when I was around 13. There wasn't the internet, there weren't support groups, AIDS was everywhere. I mean, it was really dark.

I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you.

I have earned hundreds of thousands of pounds, but I can't seem to get to grips with money.

The more hedonistic you were, the better...I very much subscribed to that as a young artist.