On "Tonight" I think I was torn dreadfully between writing what I wanted to write, but keeping it in a style that would follow up what I had just done. That's where I feel I was untrue to myself as an artist . . . that album and, to a lesser extent, "Never Let Me Down."

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

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

He took it all too far, but boy could he play guitar.

The end comes when the infinites arrive.

I think that my fascination with clothes generally was motivated by trying to create the characters for the stage.

There were lots of nightly relationships. But the reason you don't want to make a commitment is not that you're such a freewheeling, adventurous person, it's because you're scared shitless that it will turn out like your mother and father.