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.

I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.

Hey man, I gotta straighten my face. This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place.

No more free steps to heaven.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?

I'm afraid of Americans.

I guess, - a greater number of the 26 or so albums that I've made are known in Europe than they are in America.