Critics I don't understand. They get too intellectual. They're not very well-versed in street talk; it takes them longer to say it. So they have to do it in dictionaries and they take longer to say it.

I'd rather stay here with all the madmen than perish with the sadmen roaming free.

I think everything that I learned about stagecraft and carrying through - creating a through point for a theatrical device.

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

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

The sun machine is coming down, and we're gonna have a party.

I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.