I don't like answering to other people's philosophies. I don't have any philosophy, I just believe in stuff. Either I believe in something or I don't. Like, I believe in the Rolling Stones but not in the Dave Clark Five. There's nothing philosophic about it. Whenever I'm linked with a movement, it pisses me off.

I don't wanna be equal with anybody. I wanna be above equal. I don't think most people are equal to me. I'd like to communicate with everybody; I'd like to do something universal, I'd like to have the hit record of the world. But that's not the same as being equal.

I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.

I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy.

I walk alone, assaulted it seems, by tears from heaven.

As I grew up, one of my strongest allies has been my sister.

My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.