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I look back now, and most of the drama in my life was self-inflicted. I don't need to make up so much drama now.
I think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. ...Nobody really sells records anymore.
Sex has never been an obsession with me. It's just like eating a bag of crisps. Quite nice, but nothing marvellous.
I know that there are some people who don't like me, and that kind of surprises me more than the people who love me.
Drugs became an obsession, like Culture Club had been, like religion later became although I'm through with that now.
You don't walk like other boys. You don't talk like other boys. But at six, you are not thinking about your sexuality.
I was sick. I had a polyp on my throat. It would have been foolish for me to go out on the road with the problem I had.
I forgive very easily, and I suppose, in the same way, I expect to be forgiven very easily as well. I grew up with that.
The most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around '84 or '85.
I think that's the fascinating thing about the '70s is that it turns out it was quite a dark decade. But, like, who knew?
Sometimes indifference can be so erotic. I think the people who are most dismissive of you get the most of your attention.
I just eat healthy and try not to eat late at night. And I exercise as well. That's a big change for me; I work out a lot.
Personality is a real aphrodisiac, when somebody is charming or funny. I think certain jobs attract certain types of people.
As for Madonna, I always used to laugh at her running. And now I run! I get why she always ran. I wish I'd run when she did.
A lot of Donna Summer and things that maybe weren't trendy anymore or weren't hip in gay clubs but you'd hear them at Taboo.
Don't talk about things you don't like. Talk about music that you love, books that you've read. I put a lot of recipes online.
When I got sober, I really felt like there was something that was missing from my life, Buddhism is something that I practice.
You get the odd person [in social media] that will write something nasty and the trick is not to engage with them on any level.
I'd rather they call me a national treasure than a national waste of time. And yes, it does feel good, but I've had to earn it.
My coming of age was in the '70s. A lot of people look back on it as a grim decade, but I look back on it as a liberating time.
When you go onstage, you go on there to have a good time, and you smile and you engage with the audience and you invite them in.
I think we grow into ourselves. And unfortunately we do it in the spotlight, so when we make mistakes, everybody knows about it.
Leigh [Bowery] obviously loved having me in the club because I would attract media, and he loved and lived for his column inches.
In writing the autobiography, I can really chuckle when I look at the songs. I was acting out the part. I saw myself as a victim.
I've had to write in a different way because I'm not in a bad place and I'm not heartbroken, so there's no one I want revenge on.
I knew that I was different when I was six years old, but it wasn't until I got to about 10 or 11 that I realised I was a gay man.
I find that most people [in social media] just want me to say "happy birthday" to their mom or wish them good luck with their exams.
Warren Street was at the high end of the New Romantic scene. They were mostly college art students and people who knew top designers.
There's this illusion that homosexuals have sex and heterosexuals fall in love. That's completely untrue. Everybody wants to be loved.
I went to prison; therefore, I've been rehabilitated, and now I want to get on with my life. I have paid for what I did, end of story.
When I was 19 or 20 and doing my thing, I can't sit here and say I had this strong political agenda - I was literally just being myself.
I was about 16 when punk started to happen... It felt like you had this naive idea that you could change things just by wearing something.
On the street, on the train - I pull my hat down, and nobody knows it's me. I always wanted the kind of fame that came with an off button.
School is a scary place for kids. So I didn't like it, and I didn't want to be there. And it was a great day for me when they threw me out.
Lots of headless chickens running around - artists with 14 million followers on Twitter, some making millions, none making cultural impact.
I felt that making records in a traditional way - putting them out in the same way, wasting loads of money - was just a pointless exercise.
Leigh [Bowery] would make up stories about people committing suicide or going on hunger strikes because they were refused entry at the door.
Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it's not such a bad thing.
Being in the Boy Scouts, you don't think about whether people are gay or straight. You're busy putting up tents and learning to cut sausages.
I don't play big stadium-style dance, but I have discovered, to my delight, that the appetite for real low slung deep house is very much alive.
For someone like me, who has grown up with Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, it's hard not to invest a lot of myself in what I do.
[Arnold Schwarzenegger] is funny. Some great one-liners, some great banter between him and the contestants [on "The Apprentice" ]. And he's good!
There are people you are madly in love with and thought you could never live without, and suddenly you break up and think, 'What was I thinking?'.
I exercise. I go to the gym every day. It's about respecting what you're doing. You're going on stage. You have to sleep. You have to be prepared.
I try to find happiness in almost anything... watching videos about new exercises, like ones you can do on a flight when you clench your buttocks.
[Arnold Schwarzenegger] is really good at ['The New Celebrity Apprentice' show]. Totally different energy to our potential president, but he's cool.
I'm a big fan of Yoko, one of those weird people who really love her music, and who argues with people all the time, because people do write her off.
What's really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don't intend to be one of them.
In the morning, raw foodists don't normally have breakfast. We have a lot of fluids. So I make all these different drinks which are quite strengthening.
As a kid, I would've loved to get a tweet from David Bowie or Joan Rivers or Tom Cruise. It's great that you can communicate with people and it's instant.