I want people to hear musicians like Joe Cuba. He has done things to whole masses of Puerto Rican people. The music is fantastic and important.

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

I am a moderately good singer. I am not a great singer but I can interpret a song, which I don't think is quite the same as singing it.

I liked rock music, I kind of moved into that sphere, somehow thinking that somewhere along the line I'd be able to put the two together. And I suppose I very nearly did with the Ziggy character.

The coming together of people I find obscene as a principle. It is not human. It is not a natural thing as some people would have us believe.

Everything we look at and choose is some way of expressing how we want to be perceived.

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.