I think Lindsay Kemp really introduced me to the work of Jean Genet, and through that, I kind of kept re-educating myself about other prose writers and poets.

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

For me a chameleon is something that disguises itself to look as much like its environment as possible. I always thought I did exactly the opposite of that.

If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

I really wanted to do, more than anything else, up until I was around 16, 17, was write musicals.

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.