The snow has at last melted, the fields regain their herbage, and the trees their leaves.
I like costumes. I am always dressing up - I'm very English like that.
In a modern world where a majority of women say, 'I don't need you, I've got my money, I've got my stuff,' I say, 'I desperately need men. ' My whole album is a tribute to men. It takes a man in me to tell you that I'm on my knees for men.
I was kind of ashamed of my bourgeois family as a teenager, I guess - I had dreadlocks, shopped in thrift stores and pretended I had no money. At that time, I would have spat on a girl who was buying Yves Saint Laurent.
I listen to a variety of music. The only common point is strong lyrics; I'm more obsessed with lyrics than music. I need to hear a form of truth, and if it's a hard truth, even better.
There is a thing where I get scared watching other people, and really realize, My God, their happy lives are going to stop. Sometimes you feel that people have 19 jokers in their back pocket and, because of the way they're living, you're like, Do you know that this is not going to happen over and over again forever?
The whole point of art school is that you're going to be able to have nudes all day long and a teacher who is there to move you. It's great.
As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work.
Minnesota's a great city.
I really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity.
The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white.