I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn't matter if you can't play a note, it's how you communicate.

I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13.

Fashion goes round in circles.

This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.

Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.

I'm absolutely obsessed with The Jesus And Mary Chain and Patti Smith, but I'm a massive pop fan. I love pop culture, It's a total reflection of the zeitgeist.

If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you.

I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?

It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.

I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.

Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.

Sometimes the best journeys are those, that start when we do not plan, continue how we do not expect and are taking us places we do not know.

I am a hoarder of words, a giver of them, too

The wise man sees the fool & laughs & the fool never knows why

Hopeful men do not die so easily.

Drink from the stars and toss your hat over the moon.

when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it's very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.

Why should I want what's good for me?' Beatrice asked him, smiling. 'Is that what you want for yourself - only what's good for you?

Judges were not the biggest issue for most voters in Georgia in 2002.

Lavish love on every living being you meet. See how different you feel at the end of the day.

I never photograph reality.