I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.

When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.

Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn't see a space in which we could get anything together.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means.

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.

I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.

Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.