Dresses, I find, are impractical in social situations, but I enjoy wearing them a great deal on stage.

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.

My experiences have taught me that things rarely improve with a simple change of scenery.

The more this guy talked, the more he sounded like a fortune cookie.

Strange how something good can come from something horrible.

An easy life does not make men, nor does it build nations. Challenges make men, and it is these men who build nations.

Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.

You learn an enormous lot through failure.

There will always be ladies who lunch. Always. And apparently they live a long time.

I am Dracula.... I bid you welcome.

Cultures are virtual realities made of language.

There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it.