I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire.

I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person.

Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.

When you split from someone, it doesn't have to mean that you don't love them anymore, you realize that the period of that particular romance is over. One always has to get out before one gets kicked out.

France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.

Never apologize, never explain - didn't we always say that? Well, I haven't and I don't.

I've learnt to accept what has happened to my voice, I suppose, but I do wish it didn't sound quite so rough.