And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through.

I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings.

I think getting married and then running away for 10 months would be an absolute disaster.

I was always accused of being cold and unfeeling. It was because I was intimidated about touching people.

And it's always the same kind of artist, I think, who has more enjoyment being slightly on the outside of things, who doesn't want to be sucked into the tyranny of the mainstream. Because once you get sucked into that, you're dead as an artist.

I think music should be tarted up, made into a prostitute, a parody of itself. It should be the clown, the Pierrot medium.

I'm still younger than Jagger... Most people are.