“You can’t win fame; you have to earn it. If you’re given fame without working for it, then you’re not going to be ready for it.”

I always thought we had more in common with punk than with anything else, but we had long hair, so we didn’t fit in that box.

I’m not going to die broke, but I’m not rich.

The more you learn about everything, the more you learn that everything’s fixed not in your favour.

Am I going to get my warts removed? I might do, but I’m certainly not going to auction them on the Internet.

There’s no point thinking about dying, because it’s going to happen anyway, isn’t it? I don’t waste my time worrying about that.

I can’t say I was really that surprised when the doctor told me I needed a defibrillator inserted in my chest.

People don’t know how to be outrageous anymore.

I don’t know, I’ve always written songs that are mainly about attitude, not me personally.

As for what other people think of me, I don’t care. I don’t care and never have.

Just ’cause something’s popular, it can still be good. In fact, if more people are buying it, then you must be doing something right.

I was brought up by two women: my mother and my grandmother.

I was lucky: I didn’t get married, so I didn’t have to have that responsibility.

I always write about war, love, death, and injustice. There’s plenty of that around, so I never run out of ideas.

Got two kids; one’s a record producer who lives just up the road from me – great guitarist and piano player, too.

I hate golf! I still can’t believe Alice Cooper plays golf!

It’s very much up to you, how you shape your life. I mean, I missed out on human relationships. But looking at relationships that I’ve seen along the way, I don’t think I’ve missed much.

It’s funny what a few no-hitters do for a body.

For me, it’s about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That’s what’s big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I’m in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

I live a boring life, but it’s perfect for me.

These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.

God knows what’s best for us, though, so there’s no need to worry when things don’t go how we originally wanted them to go.

Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher – and humans, as well as the corals, fish and other creatures, are suffering the consequences.

Health to the ocean means health for us.

Don’t depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don’t make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.