You're a musician, it is important that you suffer!

I really love to be with people. It's nice, that. To have achieved sudden intimacy with strangers is perhaps the most human thing you can do. We all love our friends and families, as much as we hate them. When you can achieve intimacy with strangers, it's very exciting and heartening.

The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief.

It would have been convenient to be gay. Just because of the grooming, the narcissism, stuff like that. But I have this kind of roaring heterosexuality. Traditional, uncomplicated heterosexuality, an almost cliched Robin Askwith thing.

I enjoyed having a reputation as being wild, but these days I try not to worry about what people think in the privacy of their own brain or what they write in the bizarre publicity of their own newspapers, because all of those things are meaningless.

There's an interconnectivity between what's in the consciousness of cat and what's in the consciousness of us.

The way I've been with drink and drugs suggests I have a tendency to get addicted to things.