My shows are not narratives.

If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.

I know that if I had a television in my flat I would convince myself that everything on it was really interesting. I would say, 'I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here!' is so sociologically fascinating that I think I'd better watch.

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest - the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.

With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.