Comparing Madonna with Marilyn Monroe is like comparing Raquel Welch with the back of a bus.

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

The most political thing you can do is be yourself

I am what I am. There's nothing I can do about it.

The best thing you can do is work on your personality because we're all gonna get ugly.

I'm very uncomfortable with the idea of vaginas. They bother me in the way that spiders bother some people.

Karma chameleon: we come and go, we come and go.

After half an hour the drug hit me like a sensuous tidal wave. I turned into a tactile temptress and wanted to stroke the whole world. It gave me untold confidence.

Everything I think in life is about context and intention.

The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don't believe you get wiser because you get older. It's a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously

Taboo was kind of celebrating trash, the kind of records you secretly loved, like Yes Sir, I Can Boogie, by Baccara [laughs] - things that you probably shouldn't like.

Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. The gift of language combined with the gift of song was given to man that he should proclaim the Word of God through Music.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

I don't ever want to believe my own press clippings, good or bad.

Jealously is more common than loyalty.

Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.

My appearance is talking and I like what it is saying.

It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.

To be worn out is to be renewed.

I have never been in favour of expelling people from the Labour Party.

Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher's salary.