Every time I've made a radical change it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist

I just tried everything out - I mean, everything. Even my sexual orientation; I was just searching for what I really wanted. And I didn't quite know.

Having not really written any generational songs - I think maybe two or three of the songs that I've ever written have any bearing on the age of the listener. My stuff tends to be far more concerned with the spiritual and with subjects like isolation and being miserable.

There were lots of nightly relationships. But the reason you don't want to make a commitment is not that you're such a freewheeling, adventurous person, it's because you're scared shitless that it will turn out like your mother and father.

I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself.

Don't let me hear you say life takes you nowhere, angel.

I can ask for cigarettes in every language