When you find yourself on stage singing and you are embarrassed about what you are singing in front of your peers, then you have to think about your priorities.

Within three months I had gone from being this black sheep of the town to suddenly becoming a pop star.

I came from a small town and at school in one class there was me, a member from Depeche Mode and someone who went on to join The Cure. That was all in one class of 30 kids.

When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.

It is interesting seeing young people these days and watching how unimportant music is in their lives compared with our generation.

I think the world is a dead carcass and I think the purpose of human beings is as maggots.

Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists.

I wasn't good at being affable. You get beyond that and realise the attraction in any human being has more to do with what they give to someone rather than just being face candy.

I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I have no other training.

I was a single parent, and I was prohibited from working.

When you make a lot of money for a record company, they don't want you to evolve. Growing older, you naturally do.

You can not live at all if you do not learn to adapt yourself to your life as it happens to be.

Woe to the house where the hen crows and the rooster keeps still.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

It's so simple to create a delicious holiday meal without animal cruelty. I promise no one will miss the turkey!

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

Epistemic competence might be posterior to knowledge conceptually, however, while still prior metaphysically.

the human heart clings - even to its pain.

I'd never worked in fashion or retail. I just needed an undergarment that didn't exist.

Make the Universal personal and you become richer, wiser and stronger. Make the personal Universal and you will find freedom, compassion and love

Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a story's just a story