These tears I'm wailing, I spill not without reason. Remove them, my dearest love. Take me to the place I've been dreaming of, where the grotesquely lonely meet the grotesquely lonely and they whisper, just very softly, Please be mine, Dearest Love.

It's the refuge for the mentally deficient. It's made by dull people for dull people.

One can have great concern for the people of Ethiopia, but it's another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of England.

Singers attract fans with aspects of their own personality. People feel I'm passionate and obsessive. They know this isn't a profession for me, it's a vocation. It's not an egotistical thing, but something else. I'm in a dialogue with my audience, and that's something I need

The Cure: A new dimension of the word 'crap'.

I think flowers are very beautiful things. Very nice and innocent things. They don't harm anybody.

There's more to life than books you know, but not much more.