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

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.

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.

I choose to fill my days with what I'm passionate about, and live with purpose.

A jet plane cannot mow the lawn, but it can fly to distant destinations. Don't worry so much about what you can't do; just do what you can as only you can do it.

I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out.

My house is very clean apart from a very small part of it that looks as if we've been burgled, which is my office.

I vow... "to not let the back & forth of forgiveness interrupt the steadiness of love.

I ain't a thug - how much Tupac in you you got?

children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes.

The light of Greece opened my eyes, penetrated my pores, expanded my whole being.

Faith must be worked at.

The more I learn about myself, the more I understand you.