When it comes to the stage, I can't help but be inspired by people like George Clinton, Elton John and Alice Cooper.

Music saved my life. The voice you hear, the soul, the pain, is that of a person who deeply, deeply, deeply appreciates the opportunity they've been given.

There was a time when I didn't like myself at all. I thought I was a cruel joke. But now I've come to realise that maybe I am not cute, but I am beautiful.

Be free and express yourself. Do what comes naturally.

I hate hateful people.

Everybody's the same color with the lights off.

The line between playing to win and sin is thin, But I walk it with grace and I talk it with taste. I am that raw, simply put, and I rest my case.

I've been such an oddball my whole life, but I've always been cool and I've always dressed fairly smartly.

So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!

Others tell like it is, while I tell it how I would like it to be.

I don't sell dope, I sell hope.

Don't listen the words, hear the reason of the words.

Leave a kiss in my glass I won't ask for wine

I don’t call it "Life Insurance, " I call it "Love Insurance." We buy it because we want to leave a legacy for those we love.

People just assume that if you're famous, you're in Hollywood.

Do not fix hopes on your health, and do not laugh away life. Remember how they walked and now all their joints lie separately, and the tongue with which they talked lightly is eaten away by the worms

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.

What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness.

There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.

Satisfaction is like death. The day I'll be satisfied, I'll quit

People that were in my life for a long time turned sinister and tried to control me, and all kinds of weird stuff happened. But there was no conscience involved; that threw me more than anything.