I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings.

It always felt like you were trying too hard to look like the audience or something. That whole thing about the artistic integrity, which, of course, I've never bought into - with any artist. It's just not a real thing.

I think everything that I learned about stagecraft and carrying through - creating a through point for a theatrical device.

If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.

I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

There's a terror in knowing what the world is about

I wanted to rewrite how rock music was perceived.