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

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.

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.

You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.

The world can only change from within.

Every dog has like me the impulse to question, and I have like every dog the impulse not to answer.

Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth.

I think the day that I become comfortable doing interviews and going on talk shows is the day that I don't know what it is to be a human being anymore.

I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious months in between while I learned the whole process.

My ideas for the future? To take over the world.

I think my mother was like a small company which, because things are not ship-shape, keeps two sets of books, one for the auditors and then there's the other one.

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

Nobody knew the Iron Man had fallen. Night passed.