What do you have to do to get people to take an interest? I'm not going to go out and cause a silly sex scandal just to sell a record!

I have values. But morals are Christian. There's no religion here. Values. Don't hurt when you don't need to, but don't let anybody step over that line - it's an invisible line, but it's respect for somebody's space.

It seems like the more I punish myself, the better it's been. What it is, I'm relentless and I never give up. I never take the easy way out.

My reputation is a media creation.

If I'm left to my own devices, I will be tempted to make the most unlistenable music possible.

Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cynical and nasty with me, I will behave accordingly. I will defend myself.

When you talk like an asshole and look like an asshole, you're an asshole