So often, the singer is the sound of the record. People think they can cover anything, but the whole voice is the thing that's unrepeatable.

Soho has got to be at its centre. It's got such a history for rock, pop, poetry, jazz, writers, all those things, and I think it should be valued as such, and protected as this centre for bohemia.

People come from all over the world to see this little place they've seen in movies and read about in history books: Soho.

I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.

I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.

I don't enjoy being a celebrity, I don't want any part of that or any part of that fame for fame... i'd actually rather die than be a celebrity slime!!!

I was a magnet for people who want to take advantage of people like me, who think they're part of this life but they're not.

I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.

My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.

We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.

As long as ugly people are not on TV, you should only ever have interesting people on TV.

Worldly relationships are not true [are not real] it is a ‘business arrangement’.

It’s clearly a budget. It’s got lots of numbers in it.

It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.

Graveyards were the one place Belladonna never saw ghosts.

Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.

O hard, when love and duty clash!

God had one Son without sin, but He never had a son without trial.

I would hesitate to give advice to the Dalai Lama and his people because they are suffering. The Dalai Lama suffered from exile and the people in Tibet suffer from oppression.

Reality television is a scripted hyper-life that employs writers, but won't allow them to call themselves writers or join the union.

What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us