I believe in listening to what calls you from your heart and your spirit and if you do it badly, like learning to dance, you do it badly or you're going to kick yourself when you grow old and you meant to do it.
Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.
If we're being told to do stupid or cruel things, then it is morally correct to disobey.
When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey.
Never fall for someone with a body to diet for.
Quentin Crisp said it to me; now I say it to you: say yes to everything.
I am the conscience of the 21st Century.
It is true that women tend to be more identified with their bodies because in this crazy world, both men and women measure women's value as human beings in relationship to their physical appearance.
Women's regular bleeding engenders phantoms.
But I have to say, it was fun doing this Love Letter album because, hey, man, love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated. I'm also a very loving person.
I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.