People have taught me not to look for intelligence in rockmusic.

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.

I have no musical talent at all. I was banned from music classes and told I would never be able to understand anything. I still don't think I can sing, but somehow I get away with it.

I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it.

Hard to find and even harder to listen to

Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way.

I don't want people to come and see our gig because of the magnificent things I'm doing with my hips, but it's their evening, you know. They have to have fun. I'm a little bit naive.

Apparently, I have a totally different sense of humour.

I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange.

The business of being a popular entertainer in England is just too hard.

I don't trawl record shops anymore. I usually hear music in bars or at friends' houses.

Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.

If you wouldn’t want to hang out with someone who was constantly bashing you with a barrage of belittling insults, why would you allow them to live in your head?

Fear no one except the One.

How you see and depict yourself will be the exact way people will treat you--Period, Think your worth millions, people will treat you like millions, think pennies, get treated like pennies

Hand me the world on a silver platter, and what good would it be?

I suspect victims; they win in the long run.

Episcopalians have always preferred the flying buttress to the pillar of the church.

The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.

How can you work in film and still see the overt racism that exists in film and not just be furious all the time?

If you had said before the game we would get three points, I would have said you'd had too much gin.