Everyone knows how much Australia means to me. I try to get back here as much as I can, but normally it's for work, so I'm in and out and jetlagged and stressed.

I'm just a natural flirt, but I don't see it in a sexual way. A lot of the time I'm like an overexcited puppy.

I wrote lyrics that were intensely personal to me a few years ago. Maybe people know me better now.

With one man, there was a freedom and liberation. That was with Michael Hutchence, my partner in life.

Gay icons usually have some tragedy in their lives, but I've only had tragic haircuts and outfits.

I walk into the studio and we're all so happy to see each other.

I do dance music, and I can be pretty camp myself from time to time.

I have had a holiday, and I'd like to take it up professionally.

I do quite naughty things now. I do like to be a bit sexy.

I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.

I get the lyrics of a tune and interpret them my way.

The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane.

I've fancied other women, but I haven't done anything about it.

Part of me is a sexual exhibitionist.

Having had cancer, one important thing to know is you're still the same person at the end. You're stripped down to near zero. But most people come out the other end feeling more like themselves than ever before.

You know, songs often have a very coloured past. They might have something about them but it still doesn't work, so someone else adds a bit, and someone else adds a bit so perhaps one day I'll know its full history.

I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is.

My gay audience has been with me from the beginning.

I used to be able to do the Chinese splits, where you open your legs sideways.

The Sun in London ran a front page declaring my bum a national treasure. I really did laugh at that. Its not like it can actually do anything, except wiggle.

I've always been a little shy about taking my clothes off, but I don't worry about it any more.

This is such a special summer holiday for me. I haven't known myself so relaxed in years.

I know there will be X amount of women being diagnosed. I love to say, You can get through it. You can.

A few years ago my goal was to try and get the goddamned album made, which put me in a real bad frame of mind.

If you're part of a record company, you're a manufactured product. It doesn't mean that you're not talented.

When you work in TV, it's such a group effort, it's not about you.

I'm not sure that I'll be able to do everything that I did before.

I think I'm being friendly with someone and I'll sit in their lap. They think I'm flirting with them.

I've had a lot of tragic hairdos and outfits.

I just can't help but see things differently.

Everyone knows how much Australia means to me. I try to get back here as much as I can, but normally it's for work, so I'm in and out and jetlagged and stressed.

I love to have a bath with beautiful, relaxing music on and have no rush to do anything. It's a wonderful indulgence, and it helps me to calm down and stop my mind running overtime.

There's no shortcut to learning a craft; you just have to put the years in.

When I started, there was something almost romantic about the notion of paparazzi. I mean, it wasn't. They were still chasing you down the road. But that guy had to put film in his camera and work out whether it was worth pressing the button to take the shot, otherwise he's got to stop and change the film. So it was like this age of innocence.

You need a lot of luck to find people with whom you want to spend the rest of your life. Some people manage to find their soul mate. Others don't. I think love is like a lottery.

I love to have a bath with beautiful relaxing music on and have no rush to do anything. Its a wonderful indulgence and it helps me to calm down and stop my mind running overtime.

If you have any doubt go back again Because someone is in a white coat and using big medical instruments doesnt necessarily mean theyre right

One important thing to know is youre still the same person during it. Youre stripped down near zero. But it seems that most people come out at the other end feeling more like themselves than ever before. Im more eager than ever to do what I did. I want to do everything.

Im sure that love exists even infinite eternal love.

Hindsight is illuminating but not always what we want to see.

I did work out every day. I needed it to have the endurance to do what needed to be done and not get hurt. I have such a new respect for action stars now.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.

Yeah, that's what kind of, we get the idea a little bit yeah, because other people from different countries also try as hard as they can to get a medal or a gold medal in the Olympic Games. And you know, if they can work hard, we can work hard as well.

The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!

I am not stopped by low funds, physical exhaustion, mental exhaustion, or temptations to stop and work on some other production that would be more financially rewarding.

The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.

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