Everything we look at and choose is some way of expressing how we want to be perceived.

Funk, I don't think I have anything to do with funk. I've never considered myself funky.

No more free steps to heaven.

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

I guess, - a greater number of the 26 or so albums that I've made are known in Europe than they are in America.

I'm English. I can't accept happiness that easily. There's got to be a trick in there somewhere.

A mutual friend knew that we were both [with Iman Abdulmajid] on our own, with broken marriages and with children. We were brought to dinner one night. . . . It was absolutely instantaneous. I couldn't get her out of my mind . . . sleepless nights - real 18-year-old stuff.