It is only with the eyes open that a corporeal form returns, and assembles itself firmly around the hard core of sight.
I, as you may know, am no stranger to the organic courgette, but I still cannot work out who these gay footballers are.
I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.
I live in a kind of gay bubble. I live in a gay house, I drive a gay car. I eat gay food
However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.
I knew that this was what I wanted to talk about on stage. There was no point being coy about it, or pretending that I wasn't gay. That was the substance of my whole act. If you took that away, there would be nothing left
The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago.
People think stage school is a little star factory but the truth is kids like me learned about being in a team situation and going out to work earlier than a lot of kids did. I don't know anyone from drama school who's now sitting on their arse doing nothing.
Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
Woven into our lives is the very fire from the stars and the genes from the sea creatures, and everyone, utterly everyone, is kin in the radiant tapestry of being. This relationship is not external or extrinsic to our identity but wells up as the defining truth from our deepest being.
My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness, added to a student's thirst for knowledge.