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.

I think music should be tarted up, made into a prostitute, a parody of itself. It should be the clown, the Pierrot medium.

You go through stages where you wonder whether you are Christ, or just looking for him.

It was like treading water all through the '60s, and when 1970 kicked in, I thought "We're here. Right." God, this is exciting. I'm going to go for it now. I really felt it was my time. Then Marc Bolan did it first. That really pissed me off.

I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

I haven't changed my views much since I was about 12, really, I've just got a 12-year-old mentality.When I was in school I had a brother who was into Kerouac and he gave me On The Road to read when I was 12 years old. That's still been a big influence.

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.