Whatever one is creating, one has to stick to one's guns and just do it. That is all. Put your foot down and do not let your work be compromised.

To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.

I love women, but I've never had a relationship with a woman.

My dad's family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really musical and her father was the touring pianist with Nat King Cole. My family was an explosive mixture of politics, religion and music - no wonder I turned out how I did.

I don't know what I'm going to be doing in two years or even in two weeks. I have to live for today.

In the Seventies and Eighties we all had our fun, and now and then we went really too far. But, ultimately, it required a certain amount of clear thinking, a lot of hard work and good make-up to be accepted as a freak.

Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my clothes off.