If somebody's trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.

I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups.

I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.

I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity.

I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. Without the freedom to challenge, even to satirize all orthodoxies, it ceases to exist. Language and the imagination cannot be imprisoned, or art will die, and with it, a little of what makes us human.

Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment.