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.
I knew that I was different when I was six years old, but it wasn’t until I got to about 10 or 11 that I realised I was a gay man.
A difficult crowd will always test your true ability.
Lots of headless chickens running around – artists with 14 million followers on Twitter, some making millions, none making cultural impact.
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.
I don’t really feel part of the pop scene.
I get over things really quickly, and I feel like in this business, you have to be like that.
I can be quite noisy and robust in the morning.
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 had to go off to do my own thing, to get my confidence as a writer, and a performer.
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.
I’d got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
I try to exist in a world where there is freedom of opinion, where you’re allowed to make jokes. I don’t want to live in some PC world where no-one’s allowed to say anything.
I had an explosion on my vocal chord.
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.
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.
I was sick. I had a polyp on my throat. It would have been foolish for me to go out on the road with the problem I had.
My audience here in America is so eclectic. It’s a real mix of people, which is great. Like what I was doing with Culture Club – world music, multiculturalism – not defining everything in terms of sexuality or color. It was about everyone coming together and being part of something.
I’m always being inspired .
I might be being controversial, but I think Seal fancies the pants off Delta, and her pants are tight.
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