I think people could be a bit friendlier. The only real contact you have with people is when they're annoyed if you've had a party - you know, it's been a bit too noisy for them or something.
I try to exist in a world where there is freedom of opinion, where you're allowed to make jokes. I don't want to live in some PC world where no-one's allowed to say anything.
I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.
I'd got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I'd had to tell them.
Very few people can truly divorce themselves from what they feel emotionally and sexually.
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.
A difficult crowd will always test your true ability.
Seeing bored-looking fans staring at you while you DJ is about as horrible as it gets.
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'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.
I don't want to be a figure of disappointment.
I used to think of George Michael as being mechanical, like a scientist in a white coat, working in a laboratory, creating perfect harmonies, and all the while I was secretly admiring him.
I didn't think anyone was going to buy 'Do You Really Wanna Hurt Me?' It was really personal, not a hit record, I thought. I wanted us to sound completely different. Shows how much I knew.
I never thought I'd be doing records a year after I started - I had no idea it would last as long as it did.
I don't really feel part of the pop scene.
You get much more done if you go to bed early and get up early.
I'm much more interested in working and getting on with my music.
I always feel that my whole life is representing the LGBT community. It's kind of what I do all the time.
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.
