He [george W. Bush] lived up - well, he was someone that I wouldn't have voted for. His policies were not mine.

I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before.

Unless you show off you're not going to get noticed.

George W. Bush was passionate about AIDS. And we had a 10-minute talk at the interval of a concert at the Kennedy Center about AIDS. And I was astonished about how well-informed he was and his commitment to AIDS. And so it's the typical thing of don't judge a book by its cover until you have read the book.

Cocaine made me talk forever. The most nonsensical rubbish that you could ever think of.

I grew up in the Fifties and early Sixties, which were still quite conservative, and I wasn't given any information about sex or anything like that... I went out with girls at school because one had to. I didn't experiment with sex for quite a long time.

I've only been interested in the artistic side of life.