I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.

I had progressed on stage as a performer, but I hadn't progressed as a human being.

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

When I say I don't have to write pop songs anymore, there's no way I'm going to get on the radio at 60 years of age unless I'm doing a duet with [Lady] Gaga or I was on All of the Lights, which was a Kanye West record that managed to get on the radio.

An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.

I was sitting in the classroom trying to look intelligent in case the teacher looked at me.

Well, we can't leave anyone behind just because they are sex workers or they are needle users, intravenous drug users, prostitutes.