"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother told me there was no Santa Claus, and Father had died just a few weeks before, and he'd always played Santa Claus. So I knew that I was not go…"

"My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all."

"You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact."

"The world is a funny place. It's full of strange people and strange things."

"It's weird being rich, you know, and famous. It's not what I expected."