The public, obviously, they takes things in a very simplest fashion and so they should. That's why we have such wonderful television.

The world that I inhabit in reality is probably very different world than the one people expect that I would be in. It is quite sedate. It's far removed from a lot of what they would feel to be the limousine traveling rock existence, or whatever.

Bully for you, chilly for me, got to get a raincheck on pain.

I can ask for cigarettes in every language

And it's always the same kind of artist, I think, who has more enjoyment being slightly on the outside of things, who doesn't want to be sucked into the tyranny of the mainstream. Because once you get sucked into that, you're dead as an artist.

If I put faith in medication, if I can smile a crooked smile, if I can talk on television, if I can walk an empty mile.

When you are an artist you can turn your hand to anything, in any style. Once you have the tools then all the artforms are the same in the end.