Brian Molko Quotes

Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.

I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect.

Don't let small minded people dictate how you should look and be free.

I want to be a better person. I want to be a stronger person. I want to be someone who hurts less.

When people hear the word “beautiful”, they expect something to be pretty. And for me that's not always necessarily the case, y'know.

Good conversation turns me on. A connection between two people, a mental one first.

There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.

I feel very comfortable with the way I look, and I feel very comfortable with the kind of confusion that it creates in people's minds.

Music has touched me deeply, sometimes to tears. But at the same time it's been life-affirming, because I've been grateful for the fact that I'm alive and human and capable of being so moved.

You would not like me if you knew me.

My mouth has a tendency to get me into trouble, but because I'm so small and I take on people who are lager than me. If someone punched me, I'd get my drummer beat them up.

It says in the Bible that if you argue with a fool, you become one. That’s why I don’t talk to Fred Durst!

I was always a bit of a loose cannon, then again I was always the artistic one: bit of a social misfit. I probably still am.

The more personal you make something, the more universal it becomes, because essentially we're all made up of the same emotional stuff.

Schizophrenic is the best word - I change from day to day. I can be quite confusing. Indecisive, workaholic, and tired today.

I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are never black and white, things are very much shades of grey.

I had quite a religious upbringing. I gave my life over to Christ at 11. I took it back when I was about 14.

I don't seem to meet very many men I find attractive. And usually when I meet them and develop crushes on them they are usually straight. So I end up having more relationships with women.

We live in a strange bubble.

I used to fly off the handle in everyday life, but I'm a little calmer now.

I love being a freak. It's great!

Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.

A lot of what has pushed me forward is desire, and I have expressed that in my songwriting - perhaps because it's safer!

If I was a girl I'd still swing both ways anyway.

I like the fact that people either think I'm incredibly gorgeous or flippin ugly.

I'd like to be more of a bad influence than a role model. I'm getting lots of boys to wear eye-liner again which is good.

The extreme side of my personality, which I chose to sort of display, was snowballing and getting a life of its own. It was like looking in a mirror and not recognising myself.

I'm a weirdo magnet, but I'm handling it better than I used to.

Dresses, I find, are impractical in social situations, but I enjoy wearing them a great deal on stage.

Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.

Everybody is trying to be so trendy. I think not being trendy should be the next trend.

I get given loads of rubbish. So, I have two Alanis Morissette records which I hide when anyone with taste calls around.

The more you'll dress up the more fun you'll have.

Stef is officially the sexiest member of Placebo

I'm really bad with jokes. I would have to say Limp Bizkit.

I've always found music that is carnal very attractive but not in the most obvious way.

I had a great deal of arrogance and a great deal of bravado, but I think the bravado was brought on by a huge insecurity.

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

I'm continually surprised by the amount of people I wind up. For many guys, I'm the faggot their girlfriend fancies.

‎I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are never black and white, things are very much shades of grey.