I don't like talk and I don't like talkers. Like Ma Barker. That's what she always said, 'Ma Barker doesn't like talk and she doesn't like talkers.' She just sat there with her gun.

Elvis was a major hero of mine. I was probably stupid enough to believe that having the same birthday as him actually meant something.

My sexual nature is irrelevant. I'm an actor, I play roles, fragments of myself.

I went mainstream in a major way with the song "Let's Dance." And what I found I had done was put a box around myself. It was very hard for people to see me as anything other than the person in the suit who did "Let's Dance," and it was driving me mad - because it took all my passion for experimenting away.

Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left.

Fame, what you like is in the Limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.

She asked for my love and I gave her a dangerous mind.