“I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.”

“I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I thought, “Fuck that. I want to be a superhuman.”

“Fame itself … doesn’t really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.”

“I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.”

“Make the best of every moment. We’re not evolving. We’re not going anywhere.”

“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.”

“Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.”

“Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.”

“Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.”

“You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.”

“Talking about art is like dancing about architecture.”

“The only real failure is trying to second-guess the taste of an audience. Nothing comes out of that except a kind of inward humiliation.”