It's not the side effects of the cocaine. . . . I'm thinking that it must be love.

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've been putting out the fire with gasoline.

I'm a born librarian with a sex drive.

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

I went mainstream in a major way with the song "Let's Dance." And what I found I had done was put a box around myself. It was very hard for people to see me as anything other than the person in the suit who did "Let's Dance," and it was driving me mad - because it took all my passion for experimenting away.

Why bother choosing a certain chair? Because that chair says something about you.