People don't bother to check with anything anymore. They just like to speculate in print. We like fact-checking!

Americans are funny people: first you shock them, then they put you in a museum.

People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don't know what really matters.

You've got to have fresh wardrobe. You can't just go out there looking like you did last time. That helps your transformation.

Samba rhythm is a great one to sing on, but it's also got some other suggestions in it, an undercurrent of being primitive - because it is a primitive African, South American, Afro-whatever-you-call-that rhythm. So to white people, it has a very sinister thing about it.

I'm very ambivalent in my feelings about marriage. I think it promises a lot to people... sort of like saying, once you get married you are on the highway to heaven, and quite often it isn't that. I think marriage has always been based on a combination of religious and legal reasons.

My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.