Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.

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

I'm not a soldier for anything, either. I'm only a singer and I don't think it makes a difference what we sing.

The missing links in my life's work, no less!

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

My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.

I looked at what adults were doing and how they wanted to earn money, and I really didn't want to do that. I wanted to go away.