Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place.

I never fit in. I am a true alternative. And I love being the outcast. That's my role in life, to be an outcast.

I was cold and you were fire, and I never knew how the pyre could be burning on the edge of an ice field.

I'll never forgive myself if we don't go all the way tonight.

Life is a lemon and I want my money back.

In the early 1980s, I got into a war with my management - they just kept on sueing me and I lost everything. So I had to go out on tour to make sure the electricity stayed on.

My life's far too complicated to be summed up in one song. It would take 20 just to represent one single day.