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

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

I'm English. I can't accept happiness that easily. There's got to be a trick in there somewhere.

Rock has always been the devil's music... I believe that rock & roll is dangerous... I feel that we're only heralding something even darker than ourselves.

Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn't see a space in which we could get anything together.

I'm still younger than Jagger... Most people are.

I am a moderately good singer. I am not a great singer but I can interpret a song, which I don't think is quite the same as singing it.