My sexual nature is irrelevant. I'm an actor, I play roles, fragments of myself.

I've been putting out the fire with gasoline.

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.

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

Look up here, I'm in heaven.

Funk, I don't think I have anything to do with funk. I've never considered myself funky.

It is entirely possible to create something totally artificial within the realms of rock and roll.