Look at Obama - he is now [2015] trying to help us environmentally but he should have done it eight years ago. He's trying to salvage his legacy and trying to do something good but we needed for him to show leadership from day one.

Pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man to reform and transform waste.

I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true.

Finally, by the sea, where God is everywhere, I gradually calmed.

What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had.

I always wear the same thing onstage.

I've lost many, many friends through natural causes, through alcohol, through drugs, through AIDS. And every time I lose a friend or a loved one, it reminds me how great life is.