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

My first job was singing at the Hammersmith Odeon. It was years ago, so I can't remember who I was performing with. I was a sort of anti-climax after two hours of heavy rock-'n'-roll. Seventeen years old in a white dress. It was the first time that I got applause. Wonderful, that noise in my ears.

I thought I wanted to go to drama school or university, and that would have been a completely different life. But what got me was the sound, and hearing it. Hearing everything so loud, I loved that back in the studio. I loved that from the very beginning.

All I can say is I've been lucky with my body. Well done, little body. I praise it and say, 'You're very good.'

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.

The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.

I know for a fact that Heaven and Hell are here on Earth.