I can ask for cigarettes in every language

If you come from art, you'll always be art.

Some of us, I think, us small, pompous arty ones probably read too much George Steiner and kind of got the idea that we were entering to this kind of post-culture age and that we'd better do something postmodernist - quickly, before somebody else did.

To be taken seriously about doing something creative and probably travel a lot. That was my motivation. I knew I was good, I knew I could write. I also knew you could get laid really easily.

With "Let's Dance," there was actually a chance that I was actually going to be able to keep the money I had made.

I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

This ain't rock 'n' roll. This is genocide!