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'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.

When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the beat groups got from people like my dad.

It was tough at the time but when I was younger, my Dad. I would say my Dad, because without him I wouldn't have been here. I mean it was tough for me because he was really demanding. With him, it was never enough, you know, anything I did was never enough.

David and Dad didn't get along too well growing up. I mean we all got along, but it was harder on David, because David wasn't going to be the son that Dad wanted. But now they're like best friends.

Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.

I feel lazy when I'm not working. I learned all my business sense from my dad. He always believed in me, and I think the last thing he said to me before he passed away was, 'I know you're gonna be OK. I'm not worried about you'.

And I love Mel Brooks. My Dad loved his movies, too, they're awesome, the kind of thing that if you're in for ten minutes, you're in for two hours.

My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year.

My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.

Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.