I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it.

You can do anything when you're famous. That's why famous people are so dumb.

For me, the great thing about music is that anybody can do it.

I'd never really wanted to have a really 'private' life before. But when somebody starts delving into it and printing details through the tabloids for shagging people you shouldn't have shagged, then that probably made me shy away a bit more from giving too much away.

I am passionate about keeping the human dimension in things. You have to keep the rough edges and the inconsistencies, that's what makes it interesting. I've always striven to be as sloppy as possible.

It's good that I managed to hoodwink so many people. I am actually not that nice a person.

If you perform on a stage or you sing a song, it's like you sing your song, and then the words go into the air, and then they go into somebody's body through their ears, so it's kind of like penetrating somebody. It's kind of like having sex with somebody - but, obviously, from a great distance.