I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.

[David] Bowie's last album "Blackstar" featured him backed by a jazz quartet.

And it's always the same kind of artist, I think, who has more enjoyment being slightly on the outside of things, who doesn't want to be sucked into the tyranny of the mainstream. Because once you get sucked into that, you're dead as an artist.

I'm a born librarian with a sex drive.

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

Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.

I just put drugs down to luck. I persevere quite honestly, and I've got a fair amount of discipline that keeps me out of deep water.