I think it's fun playing a part that lots of other people have played, in a way.

What's happened to humour? We're becoming American. Everyone gets so angry over everything.

Madness is a prerequisite of being in showbusiness.

You're not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it.

I'm a gay man who came from the last years of illegality. That focused my whole character. I think it focused everyone's character in a way. You saw yourself as outside of the main structure.

I don't accept my business the way it is, to be honest. I don't like what it's become. I don't blame anyone for it becoming the way it has. It's got its own hideous natural progression, just like world events.

Why are men talking about what clothes they're wearing? It's so unmanly, I think. It's like Versailles before the Revolution, without the style.