I once asked [John] Lennon what he thought of what I do. He said 'it's great, but its just rock and roll with lipstick on'.

This ain't rock 'n' roll. This is genocide!

That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God - so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true... Hell, don't pose me that one.

I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.

Funk, I don't think I have anything to do with funk. I've never considered myself funky.

Everything we look at and choose is some way of expressing how we want to be perceived.

With "Let's Dance," there was actually a chance that I was actually going to be able to keep the money I had made.