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I've done quite a lot of growing up in public, which has been tricky at times.

Today, there's an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself.

It's just never been in my nature to go out there and go on a red carpet to say, 'Oh, publicize me!'

The danger is in pleasing an immediate public: the immediate public that comes around you and takes you in and accepts you and gives you success and everything. Instead of that, you should wait for fifty years or a hundred years for your true public. That is the only public that interests me.

I've been fooling the public for years and I'm really good at it.

My private life became public.

I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!

Don't go public before you can be public.