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.

I've been in Hamburg for about ten years and I just feel at home.

Wait a minute, I'm thinking, was this another one of those conversations where what is meant and what is being said are not the same thing?

I refuse to give readers an uplifting faux experience engineered to comfort them and perpetuate the sociopolitical and economic status quo.""Who died and made you Bertolt Brecht?

The harder you work when nobody’s watching the less you bleed when it’s time to perform.

Most people think of love as a feeling, but love is not so much a feeling as a way of being present.

There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble.

For me there's nothing better than putting the white shirt on for England and playing for England. I'd get worried if it wasn't like that.

I feel like role models today are not meant to be put on a pedestal. But more like angels with broken wings.

I believe that laughter is our greatest export

Art rides in on pleasure.

Never run away from anything. Never!