“Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.”

Even though it’s become a really cliched thing to see musicians working for charity, it’s still effective and it still has to be done.

By the time I was in my early teens, we were able to move into a much more middle-class area. I had a comfortable adolescence.

I mean, it is the perfect situation to really love someone to death and to want to rip their clothes off at the same time, isn’t it?

I have definitely reached the same level as Madonna in terms of sales. I’m really pleased about that.

I have been taken for a ride a couple of times. I’ve been hurt by people who I’ve had a 90 percent possibility of being hurt by.

Be good to yourself ’cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.

You’ll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.

I find it difficult enough as it is to keep some kind of normality in my life. I enjoy this experience, but I don’t know where I’m going to take my career.

I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.

I suppose maybe if I had been an attractive child, I would have had less inclination to push my physical presence.

I have the audience I deserve. Or at least I have the audience that represents the kind of people that I like.

When you shake you ass, they notice fast. And some mistakes were built to last.

It’s really difficult trying to find the line where you don’t piss anybody off.

I have two sisters. My father is Greek and comes from a family of seven. My mother is English and comes from a family of five.

I don’t have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.

At a certain age I just stopped arguing. I realized that there was no way [my father] could see, because for him to approve of what I was doing, he would have to have some belief in me as a musician.

At the end of the day, being happy being who you are is important.

Protection and power are overrated. I think you are very wise to choose happiness and love.

If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

I’m a much happier guy than a lot of people think I am.

Man is happiest when he is creating. In fact, the highest state of which man is capable lies in the creative act.

Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.

I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

I just get so happy when I think about the fact that I get to do what I love every day as a job.