Most Of My Influences Are

The 1970s Was Probably The Most Exciting Decade To Be A Teenager, From Discovering Little Richard At The End Of The 1960s To Glam Rock To Punk Rock To Electro Music. So Much Happened In That 10-year Span. There Were So Many Musical Revolutions. Some Were Happening At The Same Time. You Had Disco Going On Behind Punk. You Had Michael Jackson. You Had The Sex Pistols.

The Taboo Scene Was A Kind Of Deconstructed Version Of The New Romantics. The Taboo Crowd Was Using A Lot Of The Visual Ideas That Had Already Been Used. I Remember The First Time I Spotted Leigh Bowery And Trojan Parading Around In Clubs: They Were In Their "pakis From Outer Space" Look, And The Makeup Was Quite Similar To One Of My Old Looks, Because I Was Quite Fond Of Wearing Blue, Green, Or Yellow Foundation, And So I Was Pretty Dismissive Of Them At First.

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.

And Being Gay Isn't So Easy, Either I've Always Said That If Anyone Ever Thought I Was Straight They Must Need Glasses - But When I Finally Came Out And Said, "yes, I Do Sleep With Men And I'm Gay," Yeah, I Lost Record Sales. There's No Question - Big, Big Time.

Warren Street Was At The High End Of The New Romantic Scene. They Were Mostly College Art Students And People Who Knew Top Designers.