"Working with David Bowie was very interesting, but I couldn't surrender to it. I should have let him produce a record for me, but I'm very perverse in some ways. He's brilliant, but the entourage were rather daunting."

"I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person."

"I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, 'the press.'"

"Sometimes you just have to get a shock to grow up and wake up, and I've had lots of shocks because it's as though I don't learn the lessons, so something new comes and hits me."

"God's got something for me. I have faith it'll be OK."

"Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness, or even constancy. It is also a matter of amity and goodwill. We trust those who have our best interests at heart, and mistrust those who seem deaf to our concerns."

"Like when I host a party. I hope my guests get along. But if not, how interesting!"

"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be."