People who had been treated inhumanly, not given a chance to secure any foot on any ladder - and all the social mores were suddenly abandoned.

Pop stars are capable of growing old. Mick Jagger at 50 will be marvelous - a battered old roue - I can just see him. An aging rock star doesn't have to opt out life. When I'm 50, I'll prove it.

I'm not actually a very keen performer. I like putting shows together. I like putting events together.

The coming together of people I find obscene as a principle. It is not human. It is not a natural thing as some people would have us believe.

Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one’s emotional plane.

What I like doing is writing and recording and much more on the, I guess, the - on that creative level. It's fun interpreting songs and all that, but I wouldn't like it as a living.

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