I was told that it was cool to fall in love, and that period was nothing like that to me. I gave too much of my time and energy to another person and they did the same to me and we started burning out against each other. And that is what is termed love.

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

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.

The people who don't know so much about me regard me more sexually.

I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway.

When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.

Rock's always been the devil's music.