I’ve got quite a good brain and all that, which I’ve never had to use in singing at all.

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...

I’m interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.

I took drugs because we all took drugs.

I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, ‘sociologist.’

I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music – I got that from my parents. I love Cole Porter – that I got from...

France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.

I’m alive today, I’m well, I’m working, I’m still creative. What more can I say, really?

I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, ‘the press.’

I’ve done everything I want to do and gone everywhere I want to go.

I shoot my big mouth off; it just pops up! I have to learn to edit myself.

I wish people didn’t just think of me in the ’60s. I’m not any era.

I never like photos of myself in the beginning. I live with them for three months, put them in a drawer, take them out and look again. I hate the way I look, but of...

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 am not frightened of much, but I wouldn’t like to get ill.

I do yoga. I do tai chi. I do a lot to keep my body and my spirit together so I can work.

I’ve learnt to accept what has happened to my voice, I suppose, but I do wish it didn’t sound quite so rough.

Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!

I’m glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.

I thought I wanted to go to drama school or university, and that would have been a completely different life. But what got me was the sound, and hearing it. Hearing everything so loud, I...

I’m a Capricorn, and they flower late.

I do have a strong sense of God. It’s impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course.

I’m sick of being self-referential. I don’t want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.

My happiness is very fragile.

I live a very nice life. I have a wonderful time. But it’s not lived drawing on a full level. I’m relaxed, cool, and enjoying it.

Of course I have regrets; I’m not stupid.

I’m not sure yet what my higher mission is, but I have a feeling it might be great. Before, I thought my mission was death, but now my mission is life.