There's nothing that I own that really makes me as happy as knowing that the people around me are all good.

For any healthy relationship to work, you have to be able have that time to spend with your friends.

I've realised that as long as the youth has the ability to use social media, and their voice is there, people can actually cut through the nonsense and see what's really going on.

When I got to the second album, there was an expectation, because we'd sold nearly seven million albums on the first record, that this would do eight or nine.

My thing is, for artists who are having success, being given an award shouldn't be the thing that defines you in the first place.

I've done a couple of tunes with Kaytranada. 'Got It Good' has had such a great response.

It amazes me how quickly you can earn money.

I have enough rings to cover both hands, but that is crass. There is a fine line between looking nice and looking over. Sometimes, I look at myself and say, 'Craig, that is over.' You have to be careful.

It is cool to be gay, but I am not.

Me and guitar music is so entwined.

I don't know if, in a previous life, I was, like, the embodiment of a guitar, because any time someone plays a guitar with the licks, I just resonate to it.

I always find that, when it comes to writing songs, if the melody and the chords are working, we're 90 per cent there.

When I write a song, I get the melody right first, and then hopefully I can back it up with a lyric that has to respect the melody.

I'm not angry about 'Bo' Selecta!' I was flattered at first and even appeared on his show, but he just went on to become more vicious, knocking down everything I did.

I aspired to playing at Glastonbury, not just the Camden Palais.

When I was 16, I didn't really know what intuition was as a word, even. It's one of those things you experience, but you don't really know what it is.

I love all my albums... I use the metaphor they're like my children: some do better than others, but you love them all equally.

'Born to Do It' took a kid out of a council estate and put my mum into a home of her own. It changed my whole family's situation, and all from doing something that I loved.

You have to have those times when your hunger and drive is in a different place because you're under pressure to have success.

It does feel that TS5 gave me such a new lease of life.

I played 'Rewind' so many times in the club to see which parts were working, see how the crowd reacted to it.

If you really have a passion for something, you should follow it and listen to your inner voice.

Strictly' is the most successful reality format in the world - it's in the 'Guinness Book of Records' - going to 38 countries. 'X Factor' hasn't done that.

I like laying by the pool but I do tend to get a bit bored after a couple of days chilling out.

I think women should be paid the same as men. That's for sure. But what would you say to a woman coming in after you've been in the job for 15 years when they've done absolutely nothing to earn it? I don't think that's right.

I'm a workaholic.

My ears are too big.

When I was opening my first bank account, the person at the counter thought I was a girl.

My tights split while I was tap dancing in the West End in 1993.

Actors are very emotional, whereas sports people are used to criticism.

I used to go to clubs and sing as myself but people weren't interested. And then I turned up as a woman and suddenly everyone was interested.

When I'm in a relationship I'm monogamous.

I like committed, one-on-one relationships. That's just who I am.

Anything people say about me I don't care. I really don't care. You read so much terrible stuff about yourself it sort of just ends up washing over.

I had long eyelashes and the other kids used to say I wore mascara.

There can be dramas in your life and you can get over them and become someone. You don't have to wallow in self-pity; you can actually use the experiences in your life to push yourself further and help others.

I feel as though I'm constantly defending myself. I'm up against challengers from the ballroom world, from the dance world, people on the couch who hate what I'm saying about their favourite celebrity. Then you're up against the press, who will always want to put you in a box.

As a dancer, you go from one show to the next, and you never know where your next pound is coming from, and I think that's what makes me say yes to so many things, because there's always a fear that you won't have a job.

I direct as many shows as I can fit in between 'Strictly Come Dancing' and other performance stuff.

I'm not saying the persona on 'Strictly' isn't me - it's just that the nurturing side, which is also a part of who I am, isn't what I'm there for. I'm there to judge and to give an honest opinion, even if it's not the opinion someone wants to hear.

I hated sport, but at 13, I went to an aerobics class and the teacher thought I had natural rhythm. She suggested formal dance classes, and that's when I finally found something I was really good at.

My relationship with my dad was complex, especially when I came out. The years of verbal abuse, all of it drink-fuelled, were difficult. Later, though, he came to see me on stage in 'La Cage aux Folles' - one of his favourite shows - and loved it. Theatre won him over and he accepted me in the end.

I always thought I needed the support of someone in a long-term relationship to make me whole.

Lots of celebrities have had some sort of dance training, especially actors or singers - they have to have some movement skill and be trained physically.

Street dance resonates for teenagers. It's inclusive and brings in different audiences.

If I have to do my tax online, the government should pay for my Internet hook-up, darling.

My advice gets misconstrued as being mean.

I always say the most important thing is the ability to act, then sing, then dance - in that order.

I like fresh, crisp, cool, plain white cotton sheets from Calvin Klein.

I love my bike, a hybrid Matrix Express, which is fast, cheap, easy to park and good exercise.