The past is part of the present, is part of the future, it's all part of being an artist. You cannot be something that you're not when you're not that thing anymore, and if you do that then you're a liar.

Being a rock widow is not my job, so I would hire people to do it for me.

Making good records tastes good in your mouh. And when that record sells, it tastes even better.

I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.

I am not suicidal. Occasionally, like all of us, I get depressed and it was over a year ago and I had a little mini attack, well a big one ... I don't know quite why it happened but I find medication is not the answer to this.

In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.

I listen to too many people. I'm only going to listen to my gut for the rest of my life.