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

I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants.

People got extremely comfortable with being able to turn on their television and see MTV say, "This guy's hot you should buy this record."

We were terribly excited, and I think we took it on our shoulders that we were creating the 21st century in 1971. That was the idea. And we wanted to just blast everything in the past, rather like the vorticists did at the beginning of the century in the Britain or the dadaists did Europe, you know. It was the same sensibility of everything is rubbish, and all rubbish is wonderful.

I believe in Beatles, I believe my little soul has grown.

It's not the side-effects of the cocaine - I'm thinking that it must be love. It's too late to be grateful, It's too late to be hateful, It's too late to be late again, The European cannon is here.

I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human.