Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

Some make you sing and some make you scream. One makes you wish that you'd never been seen. But there's a shop on the corner that's selling papier mache, making bullet-proof faces, Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay. If you want it, boys, get it here, thing.

I think music should be tarted up, made into a prostitute, a parody of itself. It should be the clown, the Pierrot medium.

I find it easier to write in these little vignettes; if I try to get any more heavy, I find myself out of my league.

And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through.

Rather than really have, like a close relationship to anything that's coming out today, people are just, they've got it on as background music. It's kind of the same way the cabdrivers use music; it's very disposable.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.