I can be quite noisy and robust in the morning.

I don't listen to the radio, so I don't really know what's going on in current pop culture. I know about the obvious things, like Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber and Ed Sheeran and Adele, because I hear them. They're everywhere.

Bands like Culture Club and artists like me, you tend to concentrate on the live arena because that's where you can be your most authentic. That's where you have the most power.

For artists of my caliber, we're not played on the radio, so we don't really get a chance to get involved in that debate at all. We don't get a chance, because this weird kind of ageism exists in pop music. If you're past a certain age, you're not relevant. That's the kind of cliched term.

Adele is selling millions of records, and everybody tries to sing like Adele.

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

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.

It's funny that I'm so popular with seven-, eight-, nine-year-olds.

I'm not in love, but I'm open to persuasion.

I look at myself at 19 and think I would never do what I did then now! I was so brazen, so confident, so fearless in a way. And remember, the world was a very aggressive place then.

I think there's something really powerful about being yourself.

I wanted people not to care about whether you were gay, straight, black, white, transgender, whatever it may be... That being said, there's more work to be done... I still want to change the world, absolutely.

I always think that change is like a daisy chain.

In a way, we're going backwards. In the early '80s, it was like all these huge strides, and everything was more free and easy. I think we're going back. I don't know if it's the economics or what, but things are getting more right-wing, definitely.

The struggle isn't just about being straight or gay or transgender - it's a human struggle. That's always really been my kind of starting point: If you're out there and you're odd, come over to my house.

When I put out 'Same Thing In Reverse,' I was told categorically that this will never get played in America.

There's a guy in London named Ben Cohen who is doing great things. In a way, we need people like Ben - we need straight guys to come out and say, 'What're you worried about? Get over yourself.' That's what we need! Because no one's listening to us - certainly, no one is listening to me.

There's no better time than now to be who you are.

As an outsider, you don't think of Australia as being old-fashioned - it's only when you've been here for a period of time when you realise there are issues.

Ziggy Stardust, the Village People, and punk rock really shaped who I am as a person and as a gay man.

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.

You don't walk like other boys. You don't talk like other boys. But at six, you are not thinking about your sexuality.

If you can write someone off as a bad person, then it's easier, but when someone is also great and noble and generous and kind and funny and contradictory, it gets harder.

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.