Love's like a junkie, addiction's a fact. Passion's a monkey, you can't keep off your back.

I think that's the graveyard of musicians, playing cabaret. I think I'd rather be dead than work in cabaret. It's just so depressing.

I’ve never had a writer’s block, but still I think: Is it going to happen this time? You never know what you’re going to get; you just put your fingers on the keys and hope.

And the danger is - and it's happening - is we're seeing an incredibly big rise amongst young gay people, young heterosexual people as far as catching HIV, which is, you know, in an educated country like this or in Britain, it's frightening.

There is such a thing as good interference from your record label. I don't think I get enough interference from my record label.

I've got that resilient thing inside me. But I wasn't a happy bunny.

To forgive and be forgiven, if it's the last thing I do, then in death's release I may find the peace that in life I never knew.