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

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

One day I realized that I really needed to stop losing myself in my work and in my addictions. What happens is you just wake up one morning and feel absolutely dead. You can't even drag your soul back into your body. You feel you have negated everything that is wonderful about life. When you have fallen that far, it feels like a miracle when you regain your love of life. That's when you can begin really looking for a relationship. When you can appreciate the whole concept of giving to someone, not just taking.

She asked for my love and I gave her a dangerous mind.

This ain't rock 'n' roll. This is genocide!

Speak in extremes, it'll save you time.

The only time that I've adopted characterization again since that point, for my own albums, has been an album called "Outside" that I did with Brian Eno.