It says in the Bible that if you argue with a fool, you become one. That’s why I don’t talk to Fred Durst!

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.

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.

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

There is something fascinatingly awkward about an author photo. I'm drawn to those glossy shots in the back of books, mostly because the subjects never look happy to be there.

But the child shouldn't be blamed for the father's crime, she tried to reason with herself, then. But should the child therefore also enjoy the father's illicit gain?

Whatever a man prefers to God, that he makes a god to himself.

You were at school and you were pimply and no one wanted to know you. You get into a group and you've got thousands of chicks there.

If you believe you can do something, then you can acquire the ability to do it even if you didn't have it in the beginning.

What you end up with is outrageousness without the laugh - comedy as electro shock therapy.

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.

Good news from heaven the angels bring, Glad tidings to the earth they sing: To us this day a child is given, To crown us with the joy of heaven.

Before saying 'I disagree' be sure you can say 'I understand.'