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

Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't, he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in food and stuff like that. Dandyism is much more austere-much more Calvinistic, more neurotic - it oscillates between narcissism and neurosis.

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

But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone

It's really interesting because 50 years ago, if you didn't wear a hat everyone looked at you. It just proves that everything is fashion.

A woman is supposed to have curves like an old Bentley, not like some old bike.

I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.