Kylie is happy being gay icon in the US

Kylie Minogue says breaking the American market isn't a huge desire.

She says she enjoys having a place in the world to go where most people don't know her.

Kylie says she's content being an icon to America's gay community.

"I can go back to shopping for panties and bras in Bloomingdale's without worrying about looking fat or silly," she said in an interview with US gay magazine The Advocate.

Kylie says she loves strolling through the streets of New York because it's one of the few areas she can go unaccompanied by security and remain largely undetected by the public.

"Except for when I'm in an area like Chelsea," she says, referring to one of the city's gay-dominated areas.

"Then it can get a little manic. The boys start to go a little wild."

Kylie's only major US hits came 13 years ago with The Locomotion and I Should Be So Lucky.

A compilation of her latest album Fever and 2000's Light Years is due for release next spring. It comes after the success in the US dance chart of a remixed Butterfly, taken from Light Years.

The album will be Kylie's first full-length CD to be released Stateside in more than a decade.