I'm not a natural performer. I don't like performing very much.

In fact, in Europe, I'm more kind of this bloke what writes lots of stuff.

The end comes when the infinites arrive.

It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.

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

I always write well in New York.

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.