Touring with Iggy Pop was something to do. It was good fun. I got drunk a lot.

I think Lindsay Kemp really introduced me to the work of Jean Genet, and through that, I kind of kept re-educating myself about other prose writers and poets.

I never really got the book together for the thing, so I had all the songs and the characters. But by the time we'd gotten it on the road and I'd been doing it for 18 months, oh God, I couldn't wait to move on to something else.

There's a terror in knowing what the world is about

I got a bad migraine that lasted 3 years, and the pills I took made by fingers disappear.

Make the best of every moment. We're not evolving. We're not going anywhere.

Comfort comes into your house first as guest, then as a host, then finally as the master.