I think that the history of rock could be recycled in a different way and brought back into focus without the luggage that comes along with it.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

It's not the side effects of the cocaine. . . . I'm thinking that it must be love.

I'm really quite bipolar, and the depressed times, when everything felt like night, sometimes you get to such a low point that you physically beat at it until it bleeds - as you would say - bleeds till sunshine.

There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.

I think everything that I learned about stagecraft and carrying through - creating a through point for a theatrical device.

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