It's a tough world out there. You're going to prepare yourself for politics, bad bosses, hating employees - and usually when you're the absolute best, you get hated on the most.

You have to be able to swim in backlash.

The plan was to drink until the pain is over, But what's worse, the pain or the hangover?

I love nudity. And I love beautiful shapes.

I used to have the Virgin music [stores], and I would go there and just go up the escalator and say to myself, 'I'm soaking in these last moments of anonymity.' I knew I was going to make it this far; I knew that this was going to happen

I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then.

I had a dream I can buy my way to heaven.