I think music should be tarted up, made into a prostitute, a parody of itself. It should be the clown, the Pierrot medium.

Is it Nice in your snowstorm- freezing your brain? Do you think that your face looks the same?

I went mainstream in a major way with the song "Let's Dance." And what I found I had done was put a box around myself. It was very hard for people to see me as anything other than the person in the suit who did "Let's Dance," and it was driving me mad - because it took all my passion for experimenting away.

And you, You can be mean And I, I'll drink all the time 'Cause we're lovers, And that is a fact Yes we're lovers, And that is that

And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through.

My father worked for a children's home called Dr. Barnardo's Homes. They're a charity.

I feel that what I do is always contemporary with the society I'm living in... If I wanted to explain myself, that's how I'd explain myself: that I'm a diarist.