I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.

A career of nearly 40 years, is not very long.

You'd like to know me well, but I've got things inside my head that even I can't face.

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 think everything that I learned about stagecraft and carrying through - creating a through point for a theatrical device.

I woke up one day and realized I was a closet hetero

By the mid-'80s, it was really apparent to me that I really needed to stop losing myself in my work and in my addictions. What happens is you just wake up one morning and feel absolutely dead. You can't even drag your soul back into your body. You feel you have negated everything that is wonderful about life. When you have fallen that far, it feels like a miracle when you regain your love of life.