I wanted to rewrite how rock music was perceived.

It's not the side-effects of the cocaine - I'm thinking that it must be love. It's too late to be grateful, It's too late to be hateful, It's too late to be late again, The European cannon is here.

[While] my life started taking on all the problems of addiction. So that took me off into an area where relationships were absolutely impossible to handle on any real level. . . . Even communicating with other people was impossible.

There seem to be a lot of black artists making very good videos that I'm surprised aren't being used on MTV.

Critics I don't understand. They get too intellectual. They're not very well-versed in street talk; it takes them longer to say it. So they have to do it in dictionaries and they take longer to say it.

The character thing really is sort of, for me, personally, rather ancient history.

Every time I've made a radical change it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist