People have taught me not to look for intelligence in rockmusic..

Hard to find and even harder to listen to.

I don't want people to come and see our gig because of the magnificent things I'm doing with my hips, but it's their evening, you know. They have to ….

In the beginning, everybody that gets to work with me, thinks Im nice. But three weeks later, they hear a bell ringing. Then they realise I meant eve….

I don't trawl record shops anymore. I usually hear music in bars or at friends' houses..

I've never got on with the British press because they've always given me such a hard time. Once they build a band up they just want to do people down….

Apparently, I have a totally different sense of humour..

I've been in Hamburg for about ten years and I just feel at home..

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone..

The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the….

Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way..

But for every hour and a half on stage, you have a five hour long bus ride, waiting for five hours at the airport, five hours of interviews... I know….

Most writers can write, most rock 'n rollers cannot..

I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange..

I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake….

I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The soci….

The business of being a popular entertainer in England is just too hard..

I have no musical talent at all. I was banned from music classes and told I would never be able to understand anything. I still don't think I can sin….