Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life.

Music has always carried me through times of loneliness. So when I make music, I like it to make people who listen to it feel like they have a friend who reveals something personal to them, rather than trying to be like a god up on a pedestal.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.