My mother and father could not handle even me being gay. We never talked about it really.

Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life?

I have a three-year-old daughter, which makes me more environmentally conscious. For me, it's about the future.

Musically I'm able to keep going, because it's not about money and it's not about success. It's a challenge.

I could always escape into this demi-monde of homosexuality, which I feel really indebted to. It stopped me being a 'mummy's boy.'

I've always gravitated towards opera, and the Royal Opera House is quite possibly the greatest opera house on earth.

All these poses of classical torture ruined my mind like a snake in the orchard. I did go from wanting to be someone, now I'm drunk and wearing flip-flops on Fifth Avenue.