I am stuck in the dream of an album that sells well not because of marketing, but because people like the songs.

Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.

I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living.

The rhino is now more or less extinct, and it's not because of global warming or shrinking habitats. It's because of Beyonce's handbags.

It's so easy to laugh, It's so easy to hate, It takes guts to be gentle and kind.

I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.

I do think it's possible to go through life and never fall in love, or find someone who loves you.

Robert Smith is a whingebag.

Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life that you'd like to.

Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.

He referred to me as an 'insufferable puffed-up prat'. This is a bit rich coming from a man who actually married his own mother.

Dear Love'Just hold me tight for a while before sunrise before I die.

Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.

The roots of Cuban music are in my head.

His achievements read like the graffiti on the walls of a hangman's changing room.

I'd say my style is all me, It's different from other artist even in my city or outside of my city.

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

When I finally went to school I had to adjust to other girls and learn their fiendish ways. Having learnt them, I turned them on all and sundry.

Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.

[on Brexit] It's time for change. I just hope the right people give the right leadership.