Pop stars are capable of growing old. Mick Jagger at 50 will be marvelous - a battered old roue - I can just see him. An aging rock star doesn't have to opt out life. When I'm 50, I'll prove it.

The end comes when the infinites arrive.

I think I quite desperately wanted to have that kind of special companionship [like marriage ] . . . a special relationship, yet I hid from it for many, many years and pretended to be cynical about it.

But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

My sexual nature is irrelevant. I'm an actor, I play roles, fragments of myself.

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.