Dance is the only thing that lets you lose yourself and find yourself at the same time.

No one respects the flame quite like the fool who's badly burned

We won't get fooled again!

I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious.

A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.

Respect yourself. Try to remember that not everything in life can be perfect. You will make mistakes. That's inevitable. But you are not ugly. You will only be ugly when you behave in an ugly way.

Water is more precious than oil. Both are more precious than music. Music won't heat a house or help a plant to grow.