I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself.

I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway.

I'm not sure whether it is me changing my mind, or whether I lie a lot.

Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.

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.

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

Time may change me, but I can't trace time.