No-one really feels self-confident deep down because it's an artificial idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what you're saying, so you can drift around the world relatively anonymously: you must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you.

Some people were just getting on with their lives, chatting, being young. It simply wouldn't do.

When you fall in love you recognise you're not the most important person in the world, and your focus becomes another person.

I'm not better than you; I'm just different than you in a way that's better.

The right to free speech is important but it isn't as important as 'we're all human beings together, let's find solutions together.'

If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might because they aren't looking in the right direction for a solution. They aren't looking within.

People have always said, are you gay? I've had a lot of that. But it's just not in me. I really like women a lot; I'm repulsed by men sexually.