I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.

Because of my politics, people think I'm anti-American. But I was quite the reverse. What I don't like about the United States is when the government acts like an old, imperial 18th- or 19th-century European power.

Because I'm associated with an avant-garde sensibility, people think I'm looking down on popular culture, but I don't want to be part of a new elitism.

It just doesnt mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live on, and to be able to get on with what I do, and hang around my friends.

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry.

I don't want to be a professional cripple. And I don't see the suicide stuff as tragic.