Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way.

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

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

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.

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.

Most writers can write, most rock 'n rollers cannot.

I don't want people to come and see our gig because of the magnificent things I'm doing with my hips, but it's their evening, you know. They have to have fun. I'm a little bit naive.