The object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one's thing the Revolution.
I really wanted to get to the animal core of rock music and eliminate anything that wasn't necessary.
When I drink a Glass of water, it's thick and crawling with life. My mouth leads to the interior of my body - a caldron of disease, germs, and perversions of biology. I don't exist individually. I'm made of millions of living creatures, eating each other, decomposing, eating each other.
The goal is ecstasy, but I don't want to make some sort of saccharine pop music. I want to make something that's completely uncompromising: the best possible music ever made.
I am definitely less and less interested in music made by people that exist today, people that are living. I just see them as part of the whole stupid process of the music business, desperate (even if they feign indifference) to get noticed, trying to "make it" in the stinking music business, to become "famous" etc, and it disgusts me.
The sexuality of children - there's a lot friction there. That tension interests me a lot.
You make your work and you can't ask for approval when you're doing it. Otherwise, it's going to be untruthful in some way.
I've already bought another house in Tangier and the one in Deauville has been for sale for some time. As for Yves's Saint Laurent apartment, it is being sold because he's dead. But I won't be furnishing my home from Ikea.
Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.
There's the disingenuous duplicitousness, but you can apply that to every politician, really.
Only the self-deceived will claim perfect freedom from fear.