America believes in freedom. The English don't believe in it. They don't believe in happiness.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing.

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

Vice is its own reward.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

When a person is down in the world an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

I love touring. If I could tour every day of my life, I would. It's my favorite thing to do.

I can only see my limitations. That's just who I am.

It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.

There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published.

observation of realities has never, to put it mildly, been one of the strengths of economic development theory.

I'm holding a teardrop for a friend Until his heartache and misery end.

I love being in borrowed houses. I love being a bit out of my context. I miss my context dreadfully, but I'm excited by that.

I finally have the body I want. It’s easy, actually, you just have to want a really shitty body.

It's frustrating actually, the time involved in getting something released these days. My new CD has actually been finished for a year. It's only now that it's being released