Once I threw a water bottle from the stage into the audience, and it hit Tony Bennett in the head. It was a special moment for me.

I do have a lot of sexual imagery in my performance. But I don't think it's ever encouraging anyone to have sex. I think I just show my own sexuality, but I don't think I've ever really written about having sex or anything like that.

I still get excited performing live. When you see the immediate reaction from a crowd, its like being a theater performer, its something you can't get from being a writer or being an ad man ... its almost ritualistic.

I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.

Multiply your death, divide by sex, add up your violence, what do you get?

I don't think we should ever regret anything we do. I think we have to accept the consequences and you learn from your mistakes, and that's how you grow as a person

It's my job to be the Pierrot, the clown, in the theatrical sense.