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.

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

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

He says he's a beautician and sells you nutrition, and keeps all your dead hair for making underwear.

It makes me sad when I see artists who come alive when they go onstage, because, gee, I really come alive when I'm home.

I think I quite desperately wanted to have that kind of special companionship [like marriage ] . . . a special relationship, yet I hid from it for many, many years and pretended to be cynical about it.