Anybody who picks up a guitar and tells you that there's some inner message that they're trying to convey... it's nonsense. They're not being honest. The reason they're doing this is they wanna get lots of chicks and they don't want to work for a living.

Music is the only industry where you don't need to know what you're doing to get ahead. Well, that and politics.

Get rid of the friends who want you to spend your whole day doing nothing with them. They're not your friends. They're your enemies.

I don't speak cockney and I don't pretend to come from that part of the world. For the longest time the English, like the Beatles and so on sounded American. "She loves you yeah yeah yeah!" All of the sudden you sound American. It doesn't work that way with Americans who try to sing English. It's not convincing. If I say "Footy" and "tele" and "Brissy" and "Sydney" and "Simmo" it's not convincing.

Walk amongst the natives by day, but in your heart be Superman.

My mother had a horrific life. At fourteen, she was in the Nazi concentration camps. Her sense about life now is, every day above ground is a good day.

The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something.