My mum brought me up on her own. All we really had was each other.

Fear travels fast. Love travels a little more slowly. Rationale takes a little more consideration.

It would have been convenient to be gay. Just because of the grooming, the narcissism, stuff like that. But I have this kind of roaring heterosexuality. Traditional, uncomplicated heterosexuality, an almost cliched Robin Askwith thing.

I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence.

Eventually, I think you find a spiritual and emotional connection with someone, and I think it unifies you with everyone else. I think if you love one person, it makes you love everyone.

If people associate you with the idea of loads of money, they in turn will give some of that money to you.

People don't throw your bags out of windows because of lies; they throw them out because of the truth.