I`m not anti-American. I`ve lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years.

I want to make a pop album - something more upbeat than my stuff was in the `90s.

I spent years growing up being told what my sexuality was.

I have been doing this on and off since I was a teenager and never once seen violence. If I want to see violence or what I call shameful behaviour, the idea that women in clubs these days have to hold their hand over their drink for fear of being drugged ... Please don`t tell me as a member of the straight community that I am taking risks. I know what I do and I am sorry, but we should not be taking questions like this, from straight women in particular ... I do not deserve the criticism. What I don`t have respect for is some demand for answers from an openly gay man who is living his own life. I have not cheated or lied about my sex life to anybody in my life, in my entire life. I hate not to be able to rise above it, but there is only so much you can take. I`m suing the individual involved who I have never, ever seen, let alone wanted to have any kind of sexual encounter with, and I`m currently investigating suing the secondary sources of libel. I am taking legal action against the photographers because they`re harassing me and I should not have to worry about who`s watching me at 2:30 in the morning.

Of course, I want to sell this record - there`s no point making it otherwise.

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

I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway.

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

With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people`s self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.

It`s my own stupid fault, as usual.

Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups.

I define my sexuality in terms of the people that I love.

I think the media is a real demon.

I`ve never done anything so political before. I`ve spent years shouting my mouth off about serious issues over dinner tables but never really had the confidence to express my views in a song.

It`s absolutely essential that we have the same safeguards that straight couples do. But I want more than a 50 percent chance of success. I don`t want to emulate that.

Celebrity and secrets don`t go together. The bastards will get you in the end.

It`s important to me that I should be free to express myself.

My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven`t. I am grateful to them for that.

It`s my own stupid fault, as usual. I was in possession of class C drugs, which is an offence, and I have no complaints about the police, who were professional throughout.

I think for most of us, our biggest frailties are sexual.

There`s no comfort in the truth, pain is all you`ll find.

The trajectory of my particular soap opera with the press launched from that statement Elton made about eighteen months ago when Elton hadn`t seen me for years. Elton said he thought I was really miserable for some reason. From that point on I`ve been trying to prove that I`m not. Unfortunately it made me incredibly vulnerable to the press. (April 2006)

I would advise any gay person that being out in the real sense can never happen too soon.

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it`s total crap to pretend it`s not.

Women seem to ignore the fact that I`m gay. I think that women really get the feeling that I understand them. I grew up with two sisters, I went out with women when I was younger. I do understand them, unfortunately.

I think pop music should be about youth culture. It shouldn`t be an endurance test. If I can just live further from the spotlight I think that`ll be better for all really.

Gay relationships are a bit different. I`m sure we`ll be allowed to roam if we want to. But we love each other dearly. (On his long-term partner, Kenny Goss)

It is nice to know that the News of The World is still so concerned for my well being.

"Parkinson" (1971) is still the only interview on British TV that means anything. Perhaps that is because he appears to realize that his guest should always be the star of the show and... He paid for dinner!

In a strange way I`ve spent the last 15 to 20 years trying to derail my own career. But it never seems to suffer. I suffer like crazy. I`ve suffered bereavements and public humiliations, but my career always seems to right itself like a plastic duck in the bath. In some ways I resent that.

It was my own stupid fault. I was in possession of class C drugs which is an offence and I have no complaints about the police, who were professional throughout.

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.

I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.

I do think that Live Aid (1985) (TV) was a great thing, it focused people, I think it showed young kids the way in many respects and I think a lot of people are still inspired by what happened in the mid-Eighties.