I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.

I haven't changed my views much since I was about 12, really, I've just got a 12-year-old mentality.When I was in school I had a brother who was into Kerouac and he gave me On The Road to read when I was 12 years old. That's still been a big influence.

And I think my spaceship knows which way to go.

When you are an artist you can turn your hand to anything, in any style. Once you have the tools then all the artforms are the same in the end.

When I was going through those very fast changes, I think it was terribly important to me that I was seen to be inventive. I think that was the characteristic of my work that I wanted people to see.

Fame, what you like is in the Limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.

I don't think I did anything that my contemporaries didn't; it was just that I was the only one who talked about it. In the Sixties anyone who had a sense of style seemed to be gay. I wanted to indentify with that.