I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

It took me a long time to reach the bottom and it went through various stages. I went from drugs into an alcohol stage. For a while, one feels, "Ah, I've kicked drugs," but what I discovered was I had another addiction instead.

Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.

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

I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me, because it's not their profession to do that.

You can neither win nor lose if you don't run the race

I'm wary of the word glam because I think that became the all-inclusive term with for any bloke with lipstick on, which is fine, you know, and that's what it is when it comes down to the public level.