When I go onstage, I'm going to work ...I feel like my performance is about an emotional connection. I want to connect with people, whether it's like a romantic song or a happy song.

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.

This life is a wading pool compared to the ocean call eternity.

He had a courtly way of exclaiming over whatever was exclaimable in people – especially kids.

My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.

I have no small talk and Peel has no manners.

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children.

Everybody cryin' mercy / When they don't know the meaning of the word.

I love change, I need it.

Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.

I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all.

It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.