The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

I think for most of us, our biggest frailties are sexual.

I want to make a pop album - something more upbeat than my stuff was in the '90s.

Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.

I spent years growing up being told what my sexuality was.

There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find.

Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups.

I would advise any gay person that being out in the real sense can never happen too soon.

I'm not anti-American. I've lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years.

I think the media is a real demon.

It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.

With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.

It's absolutely essential that we have the same safeguards that straight couples do. But I want more than a 50 percent chance of success. I don't want to emulate that.

Of course, I want to sell this record - there's no point making it otherwise.

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

I've never done anything so political before. I've spent years shouting my mouth off about serious issues over dinner tables but never really had the confidence to express my views in a song.

Celebrity and secrets don't go together. The bastards will get you in the end.

I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway.

My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven't. I am grateful to them for that.

You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.

I define my sexuality in terms of the people that I love.

A lot of people like me, who've been around for years and years and years, only really lose it in their forties and fifties.

Anybody who fights for human rights or to make this world a better place. Nurses, doctors, teachers: these are the people who deserve the credit these days.

Apart from some of the videos and haircuts, I don't think I've made any wrong moves, ha ha!

Because of the media, the way the world is perceived is as a place where resources and time are running out. We're taught that you have to grab what you can before it's gone. It's almost as if there isn't time for compassion.

Deep down, my ego always thought that I would outlast a lot of people that I was competing against.

English people have seen me get through scandals.

Even though it's become a really cliched thing to see musicians working for charity, it's still effective and it still has to be done.

For some strange reason, my gay life didn't get easier when I came out. Quite the opposite happened, really.

I am a political person, though not with a big P.

I am really not interested or excited by repeating former successes.

I can't bear Catholicism.

I do want people to know that the songs that I wrote when I was with women were really about women. And the songs that I've written since have been fairly obvious about men.

I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.

I don't have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.

I don't really have any traits that I deplore. I get annoyed with myself sometimes, but that's about it.

I don't really think that there is anyone in the modern pop business who I feel I want to spar with.

I don't want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?

I find it too terrifying to go out in L.A.

I had been obsessed with insects and creepy-crawlies: I used to get up at five o'clock in the morning and go out into this field behind our garden and collect insects before everyone else got up, and suddenly, all I wanted to know about was music. It just seemed a very, very strange thing.

I had to walk away from America, and say goodbye to the biggest part of my career, because I knew otherwise my demons would get the better of me.

I had very little fear about it, but basically, my straight friends talked me out of it. I think they thought as I was bisexual, there was no need to. But it's amazing how much more complicated it became because I didn't come out in the early days. I often wonder if my career would have taken a different path if I had.

I have got other interests than just making music. I would like to follow those interests through.

I have more love, success, and security than I could ever dream of.

I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am.

I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.

I have no belief in The Bible or religion, but I think Armageddon was a lucky guess. I honestly think it's going to happen.

I have the audience I deserve. Or at least I have the audience that represents the kind of people that I like.

I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I've still got some work to do.