When you're in the world I'm in, sometimes you have to remember that when you see your friends, you need to ask them what they've been doing, and you need to grow up and learn your life isn't necessarily more interesting than other people's.

Sly Stone made such a huge contribution to the good feeling in the universe, and I love him as a singer.

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.

To be here in America so soon after the Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage and at the birth of the Caitlyn phenomena feels so timely. It feels perfect for my universe to collide with Caitlyn's, but on a purely personal level, I just think she is utterly fabulous and brave.

I always feel that my whole life is representing the LGBT community. It's kind of what I do all the time.

I'm much more interested in working and getting on with my music.

You get much more done if you go to bed early and get up early.

Luckily, I'm not one of those people who wants to be young; it's never bothered me.

I don't really feel part of the pop scene.

I know that there are some people who don't like me, and that kind of surprises me more than the people who love me.

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've never felt as though I didn't belong, I just acted as though I did.

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 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 don't want to be a figure of disappointment.

I've never been a bad person and always had quite good morals. There's always been a side of me that's been quite proper, but it's got distracted here and there. Now I'm the person I should be.

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it's not such a bad thing.

My life hasn't always been a disaster, it's just that when it has, it's been a spectacular disaster.

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'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.

Seeing bored-looking fans staring at you while you DJ is about as horrible as it gets.

A difficult crowd will always test your true ability.

I'm of the opinion that as a DJ you must always play what you love and ignore what's 'trendy' because true passion always eclipses what's fashionable. Quality is always fashionable.

I don't play big stadium-style dance, but I have discovered, to my delight, that the appetite for real low slung deep house is very much alive.