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" 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. "

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" It takes so much strength to say to your ego, 'You know what? You're going to keep me lonely, so I have to ignore you.' "

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" I have the audience I deserve. Or at least I have the audience that represents the kind of people that I like. "

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" 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. "

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

" I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what's important. "

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

" I'd like to say things are bound to get better, but I don't really believe it. "

" The first sign of real obsession with music was with an old wind-up gramophone that mum had thrown out into the garage. My parents gave me three old 45s - two Supremes records and one Tom Jones record - and I used to come home from school literally every day, go out to the garage, wind this thing up, and play them. "

" In terms of my work, I've never been reticent in terms of defining my sexuality. I write about my life. "

" I owe my mother who I am, and my father my drive. "

" I think the media is a real demon. "

" I don't have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music. "

" I don't really think that there is anyone in the modern pop business who I feel I want to spar with. "

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

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

" I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am. "

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I Am

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

" In the years when HIV was a killer, any parent of an openly gay person was terrified. I knew my mother well enough that she would spend every day praying that I didn't come across that virus. She'd have worried like that. "

" There are things about my mum that I only realised later, things that make me admire her. "

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" English people have seen me get through scandals. "

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" I never really told my parents that I wanted to be a pop star or anything. They just knew that I was totally obsessed with music. Funnily enough, my father always used to say that he didn't think I could sing. "

" I do want people to know that the songs that I wrote when I was with women were really about women. And the songs that I've written since have been fairly obvious about men. "

" I am really not interested or excited by repeating former successes. "

" I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person. "

" I'd been out to a lot of people since 19. I wish to God it had happened then. I don't think I would have the same career - my ego might not have been satisfied in some areas - but I think I would have been a happier man. "

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

" I mean, I've done different things at different times that I shouldn't have done, once or twice, you know. "

" I've written a whole body of work that I'm incredibly proud of. "

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