If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.

Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth.

Ironically, style doesn't come even closely related to fashion. It's got nothing to do [with clothes].

I'm regarded quite asexually by a lot of people. And the people that understand me the best are nearer to what I understand about me.

All the great mystical religions put a strong emphasis on the redeeming qualities of sex.

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.

When you are an artist you can turn your hand to anything, in any style. Once you have the tools then all the artforms are the same in the end.