I think it's very important that you have at least some sort of inner thing you don't talk about. That's why I find it distasteful when all these pop stars talk about their habits.

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

You can't always get what you want.

Starting off in music, the purpose of it was not to become like well known on the street and be famous. You know, I didn't even think about that part of being famous. Famous for making records, yes, but famous face in a woman's magazine, I never thought of that. I didn't want that.

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

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

I see songwriting as having to do with experience, and the more you've experienced, the better it is. But it has to be tempered, and you just must let your imagination run.