I carry on in my own narrow little tunnel and we have very different experiences of life even though we live together.

I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13.

Fashion goes round in circles.

This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.

Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.

I'm absolutely obsessed with The Jesus And Mary Chain and Patti Smith, but I'm a massive pop fan. I love pop culture, It's a total reflection of the zeitgeist.

If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you.

I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?

It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.

I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.

Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.

Clenched fists are not open to receive blessings.

Shakespeare opens a mine which contains gold and diamonds in unexhaustible plenty, though clouded by incrustations, debased by impurities, and mingled with a mass of meaner minerales.

Riches serve a wise man but command a fool.

You can't forget about luck. There is nothing in life that says if you're great and unique that you're going to have success financially.

We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.

If someone says that I'm the best at anything, I always just agree with them. I'm certainly not gonna argue.

Writers are always selling somebody out.

Certain other societies may respect the rule of force--we respect the rule of law.

The mystery of the universe is not time but size.

If the work is the horse, a career makes a great cart.