My background is full of pain. My mother was in a Nazi concentration camp and our whole family was killed off. Then early on your father leaves and all you've got is your mother, and I was an only child. Then you come to a new country and I can't speak English.

Being a Jew, you realize your strongest weapon is your mind.

Fans like their heroes simple. I'm supposed to stick out my tongue twenty-four hours a day and do nothing else.

I hope the guy who came up with the phrase 'sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll' rots in hell, I'd like to change it so it makes more sense: 'sex death and rock 'n' roll'

It's easy to be drowned out by the crowd, but to thine own self be true, say I, no matter what everybody says, no matter what the popular vibe is.

I was never interested in being a rock star. I always wanted to be Boris Karloff.

Despite what your girlfriend may have told you, size is important, bigger is better.