Sex has never been an obsession with me. It's just like eating a bag of crisps. Quite nice, but nothing marvellous.

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

I mean, Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, I think the young kids sell lot of records. But for an older kind of artist, more of a sort of heritage, vintage type of artist, you have to think outside the box.

I remember going onstage on Broadway in this Leigh Bowery thing for a track like "Ich Bin Kunst." I've got breasts, this latex dripping down on my head, and I come out in a box. I just remember the audience looking really horrified because Rosie [O'Donnell] was trying to sell the show as sort of Pippin and Annie. She was saying it's a family show.

Comparing Madonna with Marilyn Monroe is like comparing Raquel Welch with the back of a bus.

You get the odd person [in social media] that will write something nasty and the trick is not to engage with them on any level.

Karma chameleon: we come and go, we come and go.