“And that’s me. Maybe the reason I was promiscuous and wanted to sleep with a lot of them, is that I love them so much.”

There’s a very Neanderthal quality that still exists in a lot of men… And if you’re in the public eye, to me, it’s very boring to say what you have to say and be media trained to the extent that you don’t ever reveal any truth.

I’m confident. Some people don’t like confidence. They resent confidence.

Listen, there are a lot of women in this country, in many countries, who date men for their money.

ADHD isn’t a bad thing, and you shouldn’t feel different from those without ADHD.

There are two kinds of men. There are men who are f**king misogynist pigs and then there are men who really love women, who think they’re the most amazing people in the world.

If world peace was as important to people as getting tweeted back by their favorite celebrity, we’d live in a blissful Utopia.

I spend most of my life naked. In fact, I often have to be told by the people around me that it’s inappropriate to be as naked as I am.

I absolutely loathe the idea of doing a fragrance simply as a moneymaker. Personal brand to make money? Vomit.

And I think I have a distinct voice.

As a pop star, you don’t have to be that smart for people to think you’re intelligent.

You know what I mean? I could have been a zitty teenager and walked into a Tower Records, and we would have talked about Pearl Jam, and we would have fallen in love when we were 15

Do I really have moves like Jagger? F**king A, no, I don’t. But I was going to tell everybody that I did and hoped they believed me.

Do I really have moves like Jagger? F**king A, no, I don’t. But I was going to tell everybody that I did and hoped they believed me.

It is dangerous to exist in the world. To exist is to be threatened. We must live with threats.

Yoga takes what you have and molds and sculpts it, which is a much more natural way to look and feel.

I love music videos, I really do. I think it’s kind of sad that it’s a dying art form.

I spend a lot of time just listening to the ospreys. I watch them go through their life cycle. They spend the winter in South America.

Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore’s program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom.

When I was on the air a lot my throat and vocal chords got tired.

We used to say that inside Cecil Beaton there was another Cecil Beaton sending out lots of little Cecils into the world. One did the sets, another did the costumes.

I like trying to do things which work on many levels, because I think it is terribly important to give an audience a lot of things they might not get as well as those they will.

I expect them to have read books – there are a lot of people like that! That’s my audience.

A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song…

You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.