I feel that what I do is always contemporary with the society I'm living in... If I wanted to explain myself, that's how I'd explain myself: that I'm a diarist.

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

You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?

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

Sexuality and where it is going is an extraordinary question, for I don't see it going anywhere. It is with me, and that's it.

Some make you sing and some make you scream. One makes you wish that you'd never been seen. But there's a shop on the corner that's selling papier mache, making bullet-proof faces, Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay. If you want it, boys, get it here, thing.