I cannot be what I am not.

There is no denying that we are still living in the capitalist world. I think that in order to survive and to change the world, you have to take care of yourself first. You have to survive yourself.

It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.

I think a lot of bad things have happened in the name of the church and in the name of Christ. Therefore I shy away from church...

When we came along there was only Decca, Philips and EMI who could really produce a record for you. You had to go through the whole bureaucracy to get into the recording studio. You were in such a humble position, you didn't have more than 12 hours to make a whole album, which is what we did in the early days.

The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up.

I can't remember anything without a sadness so deep that it hardly becomes known to me, so deep that its tears leave me a spectator of my own stupidity.