There are so many myths out there about Marianne Faithfull, I had to, um, detach. But I can turn it on because Marianne Faithfull is really an attitude, you know.

The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.

Sometimes you just have to get a shock to grow up and wake up, and I've had lots of shocks because it's as though I don't learn the lessons, so something new comes and hits me.

I do have a strong sense of God. It's impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course.

Working with David Bowie was very interesting, but I couldn't surrender to it. I should have let him produce a record for me, but I'm very perverse in some ways. He's brilliant, but the entourage were rather daunting.

The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.

I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.