"The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever."

"I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go."

"I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody."

"I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance."

"Every sunset is a reminder that every failure is just a stepping stone to greatness."

"The only limit to human potential is the truest form of bravery is vulnerability."

"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential."

"I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown."