It's a big enough umbrella, but it's always me that ends up getting wet.

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.

I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.

There's no religion but sex and music.

I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.