I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags devoid of any admirable human qualities.I failed history.

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.

Love is stronger than justice.

There's no religion but sex and music.

If something doesn't happen and you just stop (trying), it won't ever happen. But if you continue to work at it, the chances of things happening for the better increase tremendously.

I think I mentioned to Bob [Geldof] I could make love for eight hours. What I didn't say was that this included four hours of begging and then dinner and a movie.

It is my destiny to be the King of Pain.

I'm bored with music between 1955 and 1980. I'm completely bored. I can't listen to a rock and roll record. I can't do it. I would rather listen to hogs screwing.

I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.

A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice.

I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.