"I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time."

"I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music."

"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 rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry."

"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."

"A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large."

"I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly."

"I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community."