I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange.

I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it.

The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about.

I've been in Hamburg for about ten years and I just feel at home.

The business of being a popular entertainer in England is just too hard.

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.

I've never got on with the British press because they've always given me such a hard time. Once they build a band up they just want to do people down. They shouldn't concentrate on the colour of someone's shirt they should listen to the music.