Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

Rock's always been the devil's music.

I'm not actually a very keen performer. I like putting shows together. I like putting events together.

I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.

It's almost a social grace to get into the art world, and I'm very wary of it. Art was good in Berlin in the late '70s - there was a lot more guts to art when the Neo-Expressionists were starting up; it was real slapdash; it has real heart to it - but it seems so cold and heartless in America. It's a buyer's market.

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.

Touring with Iggy Pop was something to do. It was good fun. I got drunk a lot.