The band never actually split up - we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways.

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.

So long as fortune is favouring you, your defects will remain covered.

Attack is the secret of defense

When I made you my Everything, you gave me nothing. If I made you my Nothing would you want to give me everything?

Everything is in you, Sad, Joy, Mercy... Those you think of, you feel... when you feel, you act... So be wise in thinking....

I want to be alone... with someone else who wants to be alone.

Another lesson to file away about Scotland: insulting other people in a childish manner was the national pastime.

I.B.M. was my college education, effectively. They were very good at teaching you management.

Discipline is rarely enjoyable, but almost always profitable.

What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.

It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an hour you know how it's going to end.