You can't stand still on one point for your entire life.

Every time I've made a radical change it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist

I can ask for cigarettes in every language

We slit the Catholic throat, stoned the poor on such slogans as wish you could hear and love is all we need.

Actually, my ambition at eight or nine years old was to be one of Little Richard's sax players, and that's when I got my first saxophone, a Selmer. It was a strange Bakelite material - that creamy plastic with all the gold keys on it. I had to get a job as a butcher's delivery boy to start paying for it.

They're the salt of the earth, those girls. They don't sit each night and compare notes on groups, criticising lyrics, asking if it's valid. They just play the record... yeah, and maybe they dance. I love them. I love them dearly

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.