I woke up one day and realized I was a closet hetero

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.

All the great mystical religions put a strong emphasis on the redeeming qualities of sex.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker.

If I wasn't going through a thing where I was also being my characters offstage, uh, I'm much happier just wearing the most low-profile things that I can come up with just so I can get down the street.

I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway.