The most successful stuff is sold to you as indispensable social information. The message in the music is, 'We are terribly, terribly slick and suave, and if you listen to us, you can probably get a leg up in society, too.'

Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.

It is very important what not to do.

You know, I'm fifty-two now and I call myself a singer. Before I kick it I want to be able to carry a tune in a living room if called upon. Of course, mine come out all dark and twisted and weird.

If I don't terrorize, I'm not Pop.

I'm not ashamed to dress "like a woman" because I don't think it's shameful to be a woman.

Cigarettes and coffee, man, that's a combination.