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

In my madness I see your face in mine.

I guess, - a greater number of the 26 or so albums that I've made are known in Europe than they are in America.

I feel that what I do is always contemporary with the society I'm living in... If I wanted to explain myself, that's how I'd explain myself: that I'm a diarist.

There's something about the style of living in the country that they feel, "This is what represents me." So style is about the philosophy of how we create our civilization.

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

I can ask for cigarettes in every language