Because nobody wanted to play bass, I was instantly in a band.

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Comedians get jokes offered to them, rock stars get women and underwear thrown onstage, and I get guys that want to take me fishing.

To defy the laws of tradition is a crusade only of the brave.

I'll run against the grain till the day I drop?

I'm a big believer in spontaneity.

Daniel Day-Lewis is my favorite actor walking the planet right now. He never ceases to amaze me.

Music in general is looking for something new overall.

More than anything, I think the best thing you can do as an artist is just stay as true to yourself as possible and hope that your fan base will appreciate that.

You can't watch 'Dr. Strangelove' with commercials. That would be sacrilegious.

I like to open new doors and blaze new trails through the jungle and all that whatnot. What keeps me goin all these years is changin it up.

The mind is the most powerful sense.

BLUE, THE colour of the sky, of the ocean, of certain stars and planets and the hue of the bluest eyes you have ever seen.

We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut. There are things all round us and right at our very feet that we have never seen, because we have never really looked.

When I play, I make love – it is the same thing.

As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.

You can have this kind of love. You can have it. You just grab it. Of course the problem with having that love is that you can lose it, too.

We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should not come until we are almost 100.

I focus, I invent, I transform, I challenge, I attempt, I observe, I perform.

The rest of Europe tends to be very comfortable with sexuality. The British and the Americans are kind of hung up about it.

It is easy to make excuses when we ought to be making opportunities.