On Madonna: She's A Gay Man Trapped

The World Is Less Homophobic, Depending On Where You Are In The World... As A Gay Man I Feel Very Strongly About Those Issues Around The World - There've Been Huge Changes And Developments, But There Are Still Places Where Things Are Scary.

What Happened During The Previews Of 'taboo' [musical] Was That It Was The First Time I'd Ever Been Written About As A Great Song-writer - I Cried. I Absolutely Wept, Because It Wasn't The Usual Stuff Like, "oh, He Was A Drug Addict And He Did This And That..." It Was Really Looking At The Music And It Was Really Complimentary. It Was A Huge Thing.

A Lot Of What I've Been Learning In The Last Two Years Is Due To Therapy - About My Sexuality, Why Things Go Wrong, Why Relationships Haven't Worked. It Isn't Anything To Do With Anybody Else; It's To Do With Me.

You Get The Odd Person [in Social Media] That Will Write Something Nasty And The Trick Is Not To Engage With Them On Any Level.

For Me The Most Interesting Thing About Leigh Bowery Was The Way He Used His Body As A Style Statement. He Was A Big Guy, But, Because He Was Tall And Had Long Legs, He Looked In Proportion - Even Sexy - Despite Being Overweight By Conventional Standards.