I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn't like to get ill.

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.

I went to the big Picasso retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, and I think I went to an Andy Warhol retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, too. My mother was very good at taking me to things like that. We lived in Reading, but we went on these cultural trips to London.

I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.

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

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

I don't like the compression on compact discs. It's lacking in air, and it's lacking in majesty.