So much happened in that 10-year span. There were so many musical revolutions. Some were happening at the same time.
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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.
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On Madonna: She’s a gay man trapped in a woman’s body.
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You’re lucky if you reach the point where you go, “OK, I have a wonderful life …I fly around the world, stay in beautiful places, people are generally quite sweet to me, what’s to complain about?” But I think you have to get there…
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The New Romantic scene was so tiny. Although it got lots of mileage in the media, it was a really small club with only a core group of people. As it got more popular, kids started to come from the suburbs all dressed up, but it -really wasn’t as big as it looked.
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I just go in my back garden. It’s the only place where people don’t come and bother you.
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I was about 16 when punk started to happen… It felt like you had this naive idea that you could change things just by wearing something.
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She’s probably in denial that she’s a great big ball of insecurity and I’m quite well aware that I am one.
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I find that most people [in social media] just want me to say “happy birthday” to their mom or wish them good luck with their exams.
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In writing the autobiography, I can really chuckle when I look at the songs. I was acting out the part. I saw myself as a victim.
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I don’t know whether when I was 20 years old or 25 years old if somebody would have come along with incredible wisdom whether I would have really listened.
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I exercise. I go to the gym every day. It’s about respecting what you’re doing. You’re going on stage. You have to sleep. You have to be prepared.
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I just remember the audience looking really horrified because Rosie [O’Donnell] was trying to sell the show as sort of Pippin and Annie. She was saying it’s a family show.
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The band never actually split up – we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways.
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I suppose I was seen more as an elder statesman because I had been around the London club scene for so many years. To the Taboo crowd I was really seen as a pop star, someone famous.
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Certainly for me, when punk exploded in the 1970s, it was just great. We had these wonderful clothes to wear.
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