Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that?
I'm not a great collaborator, to tell the truth.
When you shake you ass, they notice fast. And some mistakes were built to last.
My dad worked in a very typical first-generation immigrant fashion - 24 hours a day for years.
[My mother] is much more musical, and by the time I started writing songs - by the time I was about 17 - she started to believe in me, musically.
I have definitely reached the same level as Madonna in terms of sales. I'm really pleased about that.
I was supposed to be a real Thatcherite. Just by dint of being a first-generation immigrant and having not had money, and then suddenly having it - and getting on planes and going to Ibiza and sitting around in thongs. But actually nothing I was writing or doing was even vaguely Thatcherite.
If something's a little weird, it's Kafkaesque.
You find yourself in this world, you find yourself out of this world and there's no one to find the Self. There's no Self to find.
Often I say to myself "Really, what are we doing on this planet?" We are passing the message as well as we can, communicating our fears, our hopes. . . Day in day out, week after week and year after year, people kill each other.
When I'm writing, I'm thinking, "Well, this might be a book that I'll always be happy with, and certainly readers will be happy with. " But another part of me knows that when I'm past the stage of writing, the book is gonna have good things about it, bad things about it - probably more bad than good. I just know that. That's who I am.