Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, 'that’s like all the cocaine I sniffed.'

I can't talk about - as eloquently as everyone else about a prevention or medicine or, you know, funding, but I can talk about the human element, which is the main part of AIDS, because it comes to the human being and how they are being treated, what medicines they are on and what medicines they are not on.

Ever since I had that interview in which I said I was bisexual it seems twice as many people wave at me in the streets.

It's so easy to write songs about misery and hard times and sadness. It's much more difficult to write songs about happy and chirpy stuff.

There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. People should be very free with sex, they should draw the line at goats.

I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.

Poor cow, you'll get your dumb man. You'll see your whole life coming at you in the back of his hand.