Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics.

If I hear that people are litigious, I immediately dismiss them.

The problem I've got is that I really, really like drugs. I love everything about them. It is horrific being sober all the time-utterly awful.

Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow.

The function of music is to release us from the boredom of existence.

The motivation of all artists is 'Look at me, Mum'.

An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more. I have always been fascinated by blood. Pain can be vitalizing; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live?