I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.

I have to be able to love somebody except myself and the theater.

For some people, marriage may be very groovy. For me, it really isn't. I don't think it really is for most people anyway. Most people are not very happy.

I don't see decadence really as what you do, because I don't do much at all that is decadent in my life. But I still am decadent. It's a state of mind, I think.

Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.

Life has changed. People have changed. They are more forgiving, less inclined to rush to judgment. And I have changed.

The only time I ever really consider retiring is when I get fed up with the press. Which is often.