But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.

When critics ask you if you feel vindicated by other critics - I didn't like critics then, and I don't like them now. There you go. I've always been outside the mainstream, and it stayed that way.

Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.

I tried to give up drugs by drinking.

I write whatever shows up. That's good enough for me. I'm part of the first generation that wants to still do original material and not tour around as an oldies act.

It always bothers me to see people writing RIP when a person dies. It just feels so insincere and like a cop out. To me, RIP is the microwave dinner of posthumous honours.

It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print.