I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.

That was the problem with the 'celibate' word because they don't consider for a moment that you'd rather not be, but you just are. I was never a sexual person.

Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve?

Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.

Lavish promotional campaigns are meant to blind audiences to the uselessness of an artist. If an artist is no good, why is it necessary to have that artist repeatedly rammed in our face?

You have to, at least from a distance, look as if you know what you're doing, and I can manage that.

My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed.

I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living.

That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.