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In a way, the most political thing you can do is be yourself.

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.

Fans want more; they want you to perform in their living room. That's the nature of the beast.

I always think that change is like a daisy chain.

There's a guy in London named Ben Cohen who is doing great things. In a way, we need people like Ben - we need straight guys to come out and say, 'What're you worried about? Get over yourself.' That's what we need! Because no one's listening to us - certainly, no one is listening to me.

An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.

Ziggy Stardust, the Village People, and punk rock really shaped who I am as a person and as a gay man.

I'd rather they call me a national treasure than a national waste of time. And yes, it does feel good, but I've had to earn it.

It's funny that I'm so popular with seven-, eight-, nine-year-olds.

If you go back to the '80s, you had a whole plethora of artists, everyone from Madonna and Cyndi Lauper to Prince. God bless Lady Gaga for doing her thing, but she's kind of a lone peacock now. If anything, we have a much more conservative kind of pop world. It's not necessarily about individuality.

I'm not in love, but I'm open to persuasion.

I get over things really quickly, and I feel like in this business, you have to be like that.

My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you.

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

Unless you insult my mother or something, there is not much you could say to me that would really bother me.

I've never shied away from country. 'Karma Chameleon' verges on country. Reggae and country are very closely linked. If you go to Jamaica, you hear a lot of country music. There's a correlation.

I went to prison; therefore, I've been rehabilitated, and now I want to get on with my life. I have paid for what I did, end of story.

I can do anything. In GQ, I appeared as a man.

The struggle isn't just about being straight or gay or transgender - it's a human struggle. That's always really been my kind of starting point: If you're out there and you're odd, come over to my house.

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.

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.