I went to a middle-class school, but my background is working class. I got the best of both worlds, I saw both classes, so I have a pretty fair idea of how people live and why they do it.

The coming together of people I find obscene as a principle. It is not human. It is not a natural thing as some people would have us believe.

I'm quite certain that the audience that I've got for my stuff don't listen to the lyrics.

Am I Machiavellian? I don't think I'm quite the mastermind people would have me be. Everything I do tends to be very successful and it may have something to do with the fact that I'm very good, not necessarily that I manipulate. But that doesn't often occur to people.

If you come from art, you'll always be art.

The media is either our salvation or our death.

You can begin really looking for a relationship . . . when you can (appreciate) the whole concept of giving to someone, not just taking.