Asked whether he thinks he is a good actor: "I took you in, didn't I? I rest my make-up case." "I have nothing to say about the new album. Can I go now?" [during an interview about his new album in 1999] "Talking about art is like dancing about architecture." "I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry." "Any list of advice I have to offer to a musician always ends with, 'If it itches, go and see a doctor.'" [on getting an honorary degree from Boston's Berklee College of Music] "I know about Kylie and Robbie and 'Pop Idol' and stuff like that. You can't get away from that when you hit the [British] shore, so I know all about the cruise ship entertainment aspect of British pop." "I'm an instant star; just add water." "It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be." - from 1992 "I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human." "I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody." "It's true - I am a bisexual. But I can't deny that I've used that fact very well. I suppose it's the best thing that ever happened to me. Fun, too." - in 1976 interview with Playboy "You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is." "I don't know how many times someone has come up to me and said, `Hey, Lets dance!' I hate dancing. God, it's stupid." "I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman." "Fab. But, you know, I don't feel fifty. I feel not a day over forty-nine. It's incredible. I'm bouncy, I feel bouncy." - on being 50 "I once asked [John] Lennon what he thought of what I do. He said 'it's great, but its just rock and roll with lipstick on'." "I gave up smoking six months before I had the heart attack - so that was worth it, wasn't it! I started to give up when my daughter was born because I wouldn't smoke in the house with her there so I had to go outside. It's bloody cold in winter in New York, so I just quit."