When you start a new project, no matter if it's a movie like Enigma or an album like Goddess, you are always learning something. While I search, I find something new.

As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.

I read the most extravagant things about people who suffer and depress because of things written about them.

If you get to be a really big headliner, you have to be prepared for people throwing bottles at you in the night.

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.

The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.

I suppose you do think about the time that's allotted to you more than when you were younger. The mortality thing obviously has a stronger pull for you. It's an imminent truth; it's not necessarily a bad thing. You realize - much earlier than my age now - that you won't be able to play for England's football team, just to take a really crass example. So you can't have that life again. Unless you believe in reincarnation or whatever. Reincarnation? That's a whole other question. I find people who talk about that sort of thing in interviews idiotic. And I don't want to go down with them.