I was always accused of being cold and unfeeling. It was because I was intimidated about touching people.

I'll stick with you baby for a thousand years.

The only art I'll ever study is stuff I can steal from.

I'm not sure that an art career would have any benefit for me; I'm not sure it's what I want. I don't think I want to be a designer-rock artist.

It's almost a social grace to get into the art world, and I'm very wary of it. Art was good in Berlin in the late '70s - there was a lot more guts to art when the Neo-Expressionists were starting up; it was real slapdash; it has real heart to it - but it seems so cold and heartless in America. It's a buyer's market.

To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.

I don't like people probing into my life, so I reveal as little as possible or lie about it as much as need be so as to give them something to write about.