I think that more than writing and music, my greatest talent is that I have an instinctive knack of self-image propagation. I was very good at manipulating publicity with a few little phrases like 'erotic politicians'. Having grown up with TV and mass magazines, I knew instinctively what people would catch on to, so I dropped those little jewels here and there, seemingly very innocently; of course, I was just calling signals.

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.

I like ideas about the breaking away or overthrowing of established order. I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that …

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your abi…

I think they just thought she would be a good kind of lightning rod. We did one or two rehearsals, and I know for a fact that people liked her legs.

'As soon as you start talking about mystique, you have none.' -- Interview for Rolling Stone magazine.

Apparently everyone thinks there's a bunch of people in an uproar over J.C. Chasez' new album title, 'Schizophrenic.' In actuality it's just four people with h…