"Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'."

"Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache."

"I do think it's possible to go through life and never fall in love, or find someone who loves you."

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

"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?"

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

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