Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.

I'm afraid of Americans.

Mine is really - Ziggy Stardust, characters, "Let's Dance." That's me in the American.

There's a thing that just as you go to sleep, if you keep your elbows elevated that you will never go below the dream stage. And I've used that quite a lot and it keeps me dreaming much longer than if I just relaxed.

[While] my life started taking on all the problems of addiction. So that took me off into an area where relationships were absolutely impossible to handle on any real level. . . . Even communicating with other people was impossible.

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

They're the salt of the earth, those girls. They don't sit each night and compare notes on groups, criticising lyrics, asking if it's valid. They just play the record... yeah, and maybe they dance. I love them. I love them dearly