There's something about the style of living in the country that they feel, "This is what represents me." So style is about the philosophy of how we create our civilization.

I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac.

Lou Reed is the most important definitive writer in modern rock. Not because of the stuff that he does, but the direction that he will take it.

That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God - so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true... Hell, don't pose me that one.

I really believe that Bob Dylan and others have speeded up the changes. Pacifism has found a voice at last.

They [people] mistake fashion for style.

I've always been very chauvinistic, even in my boy-obsessed days. But I was always a gentleman. I alwaysd treated my boys like real ladies. Always escorted them properly and, in fact, I suppose if I were a lot older - like 40 or 50 - I'd be a wonderful sugar daddy to some little queen down in Kensington. I'd have a houseboy named Richard to order around.