The sun machine is coming down, and we're gonna have a party.

I had enormous self-image, problems and very low self-esteem, which I hid behind obsessive writing and performing. It's exactly what I do now except I enjoy it now. I'm not driven like I was in my twenties. I was driven to get through life very quickly.

I think Lindsay Kemp really introduced me to the work of Jean Genet, and through that, I kind of kept re-educating myself about other prose writers and poets.

I could never, ever talk to my father. I really loved him, but we couldn't talk about anything together. There was this really British thing that being even remotely emotional was absolutely verboten.

Trust nothing but your own experience.

If you want it, boys, get it here, thing.

In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it's the recording or the performance side.