Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.

I took a month long vacation in the stratosphere, and you know it's very hard to hold your breath.

To say I'll make your dreams come true would be wrong, but maybe, darling, I could help them along.

When you get fat and lose your hunger. That is when you know the sellout has happened.

Those wounds stay with you, and you turn them into a language and a purpose.

If you see me performing, you're going, that guy is simply the most extroverted guy I've ever seen. But if you've seen me very often on a daily basis and all the while growing up, I was very, very introverted. Very introverted. So I have sort of the extremes of both of those characteristics.

I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.