Everyone tries to research your background. I have a real fear of celebrity and exposing my real self.

Nobody starts a band to make friends; you do it because of the music.

There's so much to be said for making your guitar sound like a synthesizer and try to make your drummer sound like a drum machine.

I'm really excited about the remixes. I've always been a fan of electronic music and I'm thinking about that very seriously for the next record as well.

I never understood the low art/high art distinction.

I never saw the point in listening to only one thing. The low art/high art distinction comes from the establishment telling me how I'm supposed to think.

Patriotism is a joke in the UK.

Youth is so cynical. There's never anything to believe in as a teen.

Even that word depends on what you mean by pop. I mean, pop music has currency. It could just be about that girl who's in love with you.

I think there's real currency in pop culture.

There's so much that you can do if you mimic your style to a drum machine. I think that's far more exciting.

Love transforms pleasure into pain.

I love sunrises. They always signify something new and something beautiful. The darkness fading away.

There is no use saying you chose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up.

A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.

Pretty Woman was the easiest job I've ever done. I just wore the right toupee.

I'm always dissing Ray and making fun of him, talking about his money.

Create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path

As long as we’re together, that’s how we’ll be. No trembling. No faltering. We’re unstoppable.

It truly feels great to be a Cub today.

Voluntary paid maternity leave: yes; compulsory paid maternity leave: over this Government’s dead body, frankly. It just won’t happen.