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

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.

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.

You put something you like on really loud, and you feel godlike.

Never put an age limit on your dreams.

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

Just because people can express themselves through their art doesn't mean they are great communicators in person.

What we've tried to do is have neighbors, colleagues, friends and family talking.

We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology.

The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.

The problem is a lot of people don't think. The general bloke just goes through life, gets a job, gets married and all that, and that's it.

My advice is to run while you can.

Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.

The most important actions are never comfortable.