I have a real problem with rock music because it seems that lineage doesn't really exist.

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.

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

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.

Though you may be paid minimum wage, to the customers you are the face of the entire company.

Lost in these imaginary illusions I forgot my destiny – that of the hunted.

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.

There are many worlds and many systems of Universes existing all at the same time, all of them perishable.

Life is challenging for everyone. If someone can believe that he's a sovereign in his tiny domain, it's just an adaptation to life.

The Olympics show that your dream can come true if you work hard. It's not impossible.

Tricky the paths a long love might follow, like the spiral down twists of a raindrop on a windowpane.

When I first met you, you were just an annoying novice nurse. But I found out that you saved my life and now you're my little sister. Isn't it funny.

I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish - there was a bit of nobility about her.