There's one thing you can't download and that's a live performance. And I know how to put on a show, and enjoy performing, and I'll always have that.

I feel just as hungry today as I did the day I left home.

Nowadays New-York is not the exciting place it used to be. It still has great energy; I still put my finger in the socket. But it doesn't feel alive, cracking with that synergy between the art world and music world and fashion world that was happening in the 80s. A lot of people died.

I've always been interested in electronica, techno, trip-hop, that kind of music. The thing that bothered me about a lot of that music, though, was it seemed devoid of emotion. There wasn't a lot that felt personal.

If I can't be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I don't really see the point of being on this planet.

Sure, having my pictures taken in the nude and doing things that I did got me in the door but it didn't keep me in the room. To have lasted as long as I've lasted, obviously, I have to have something more going for me.

I want the good life, but I don't want an easy ride. What I want is to work for it, feel the blood and sweat on my fingertips.