It's a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there's a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. But I guess that's how some of us conduct our lives.

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

It's true - I am a bisexual. But I can't deny that I've used that fact very well. I suppose it's the best thing that ever happened to me.

I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.

Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn't see a space in which we could get anything together.

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.