The business of being a popular entertainer in England is just too hard.

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.

I have no musical talent at all. I was banned from music classes and told I would never be able to understand anything. I still don't think I can sing, but somehow I get away with it.

I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it.

Hard to find and even harder to listen to

Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way.

I don't want people to come and see our gig because of the magnificent things I'm doing with my hips, but it's their evening, you know. They have to have fun. I'm a little bit naive.

Apparently, I have a totally different sense of humour.

I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange.

I don't trawl record shops anymore. I usually hear music in bars or at friends' houses.

I've been in Hamburg for about ten years and I just feel at home.

Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself.

you can't say civilization dont advance, in every war they kill you in a new way

Don't eat bear balls. Eat healthy, delectable, plant-based foods so that you will never fall over on your cat.

Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.

What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose my North American driven attitude and that I could be a little bit more poetic and laissez faire.

I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.

I don’t read the news. I make the news

Begin to know Him now, and finish never

I dont remember a big fight between the Republicans and Democrats in the Nixon administration or President Gerald Ford and so on.

I feel that sometimes we are so distracted by superficial things, we forget what really matters: cherishing those around us.