HOTELS - Almost a home environment. I dont like them, but Im begining to feel like I live in Hotels, Im staying in on here in New York. I’ve decided to concentrate on New York for a while until I’ve achieved something in America and I have something to bring back to England, rather than just myself. It’s important to me that I bring some success back with me.

DIANA ROSS - Sexy. Very intelligent. Hard. Soft. She lives in Manhattan, just down the road from my hotel. I really wanted to meet her, so I left a lot of messages for her, all sort of messages and one night she called me back. I really love her. I love her music. She’s a great talent. She’s got nothing but praise for me which is quite nice. I’d like to see much more of her. I dont need to see someone all day and every day, but when I do see Diana I enjoy it and when I dont, I look forward to seeing her again.

HAIRCUTS - Whimsical. I cut my dreadlocks off a long time ago, and now I’ve got a mohican. It’s gorgeous, I dont have to worry about it. It’s a complete change. I didn’t realise before how important haircut actually is. Before, I just used to have hair. Now it’s in a style that relates to something. I get treated differently. It’s like a statement. I’m not just kind of anybody.

NEW YORK - Second best to England. I love England. But in New York they’re giving me a chance. Thats important , because I want my fans in England to be proud of me. It’s very fast, New York, and very dangerous. It’s nice to have that edge of danger . They call New York the big apple. LA is the big orange.

DEMIS ROUSSOS - I dont know anything about him, but I’m sure that if I was in an airplane hijack, I’d probably do something very daring and very stupid and probably get killed. Or maybe I’d just sit down and cry , I don’t know. I would be one extreme of the other.

PERFECTION - I’m always looking for it. The day I think I’m perfect, then someones’s going to stab me, I’m sure.

SPITTING IMAGE - I saw the last show in the series which was a bit too much. There’s a fine dividing line between humour and embarrassment, and I thought it was embarrassing. I can’t even remember what it was about. There’s a difference betwwen poking fun and being cruel. Thatcher, love her or hate her, is at the moment the Prime Minister of England. She does a great job, a very difficult job which not a lot of people could do. To slag her off like they do is out of place. I’m not saying I’m very supporter of Margaret Thatcher.

FLIRTING - One of my favouirite occupations.

PHOTOGRAPHERS - Some of them I admire. You get those guys who make a living out of turning up at airports. It’s a horrible thing to do, but I do sort of admire them because it takes a lot of brain power to get around to getting those photos. They work hard at getting them. There are other ones who work by asking people to do photos, and some of those I admire as well . Of course, there a lots that I don ‘t like.

SUMMER - Trying to work in the summer is the hardest thing in the world.

AUSTRALIANS - The one’s I’ve met I’ve loved. Well, a couple of them I haven’t liked. It’s unfortunate that I was in that place at that time, the day I was attacked by a couple of Australians. You just have to accept these thing and carry on. I usually get on very, very well with other people. I don’t try to cause trouble. It’s a negative aspect, it just holds you back. That incident must have been meant to happen, otherwise it wouldn’t have happened.

PERFORMANCE - About 10 years ago, I used to walk around England when boys weren’t supposed to walk around like Marilyn Monroe, so there’s no way I’m going to be intimidated by going onstage in front of 50 people in a night club, contrary to what to press have said about me storming offstage in tears through stagefright. I walked off because the people at the club were ripping the audience off. People were being charged 18 dollars to get in, and this guy was fucking the sound up on purpose. The best thing to do was a leave. Things like squeaky leads or mikes don’t make me cry . If I’m wathing TV and I see the African situation, little kids starving to death, I just sit there and cry, I’m not ashamed to cry. If feel like it, I will, but only if it’something worthwhile.

JON MOSSS - I don’t know what to say about him, really.

JOHN McENROE - He’s an eletric player. He decided to be a tennis player, and he’s become the best. I don’t know about his tantrums and all that sort of stuff. All I know is that he really plays tennis.

BEST FRIEND - I don’t have any answer to that one.

PRINCESS MARGARET - I’m really fed up with royalty to tell you the truth. I just don’t understand it at all. If you look at history, the person who went out and killed the most people became king. The monarchy is built on murders and deceit Generations of kings and queens have decided " I want to be called a queen an sit in a castle". Today’s Queen is like a derivative of that. People take her for what she is but don’t think about the history behind it. She doesn’t say anything . What does the woman do ? She could help England much more than she does. She’s going on tours shaking hands and smiling and all the time people are starving. Please.......

FLARED TROUSERS - It’s stupid. Some person sits in an office and will suddenly think "Oh, frares are coming back into fashion ", he’ll write it in his newspaper and kids will go and buy flares. That says nothing about individuality or style. Some pairs of trousers that are flared are quite nice and some aren’t.I don’t belive in following all this fashion shit. I’d rather lead fashion than follow it.

IMAGE - It can’t be that important, otherwise I’d make more of on effort. I don’t even know what people see me as.... some sort of mental drag queen, maybe. Of course I’d like if everyone says "Marilyn is great ". On the other hand, you have to do something to make people like you. I’m working very hard. I want to sell millions of records, but up until now, I’ve been making music to please myself. But the thing about pop stars is that really they think about what common denominator in the music would be acceptable to a lot of ears. I’m starting to give more thought to that kind of thing.

HIT RECORDS - I was disappointed for the people who worked with me on my records that sales weren’t better. I’d have to sell millions of records, but that’s not the sole reason for doing what I do. When the records weren’t huge hits, I thought about all those fucking brilliant, talented people who worked on my songs. People don’t re realise what actual hard work it is in the studio . I usually feel privileged to be asked to go into the studio with those people.

BUCKS FIZZ - I think (a) it’s very bad to enter the Eurovision Song Contest, the tackiest show in the world and (b) they came through it intact, like Abba. I think all the newspaper coverage on Jay Aston is very sad because those kind of things are very personal. I don’t know what’s going on there, but it just sounds a bit pointless to me.

AIDS - I think that more money should be invested in finding the cure. Ther’s a lot of suffering going on.

VANITY - I’m not at all vain, I used to be. I don’t care now if I get spots all over my face, although if you’re going to a party where people like John Travolta and Cyndi Lauper are going to be, you to start to try and make yourself more attractive.