The work became like the drug addiction, the clothes, anything in my life. It became - it's become an addiction. I'm addicted to working.

Anyone who lip-synchs in public on stage when you pay 75 pounds to see them should be shot.

I tried to commit suicide one day. It was a very Woody Allen-type suicide. I turned on the gas and left all the windows open.

Instead of more violence why isn't there a [meeting of religious leaders]. It's all got to be dialogue - that's the only way. Get everybody from each religion together and say 'Listen, this can't go on. Why do we have all this hatred?'

You know, it's a very treatable disease. You shouldn't feel ashamed. But I'm afraid that's carried on very much so from the first days of AIDS, when it was basically a gay disease. And then, of course, you know, it affected everybody.

If there's a God in heaven, what's he waiting for? If He can't hear the children, then he must see the war.

I used to take hostages in my relationships and not let people be independent. It always ended in disaster, because you take away people's identity and they end up full of resentment.