I want to be a better person. I want to be a stronger person. I want to be someone who hurts less.

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.

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.

Conflicts may create unfathomable distances.

He is insatiable in love. His wife is a great cook.

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

But it wasn't until I graduated from Texas A & M University and joined the United States Air Force, flying C-130's all around the globe, that I truly appreciated the blessings of freedom.

Every image is to be seen as an object and every object as an image.

How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change

No one ever erected a statue of a critic.

Age is information failure. The body loses fluency.

...he came to the conclusion that you cannot depend on people, and that you can live in peace only if you keep them at arm's length.

Not like Tobias, who is almost shy when he smiles, like he is surprised you bothered to look at him in the first place.