You are bound to pick up influences.

I think there are unseen powers who don't want pop music to be anything other than glorified Madonnas.

I know I will never have a hit single in America.

Even though I've been reasonably well known for quite a long time, I still can't get a record on daytime radio or on MTV.

War, I thought, was the most negative aspect of male heterosexuality. If more men were homosexual, there would be no wars, because homosexual men would never kill other men, whereas heterosexual men love killing other men.

I always seem to be singing against the grain.

Obviously Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive.

I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normally living.

British politics, as the world knows, is a joke. Yet it's rarely funny.

Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve?