You're headed for disaster cos you never read the signs Too much love will kill you every time

I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show.

I'm so powerful in stage that I seem to have created a monster. When I'm performing I'm an extrovert, yet inside I'm a completely different man.

I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.

People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. F**k them, darling. I say what any decent poet would say if you dared ask him to analyze his work: If you see it, dear, then it's there. ... I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics. ... I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.

We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear .