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.

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.

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.

And I'd be willing to bet that you were great at it, if only because you have to love something before you can hate it.

The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.

There are male as well as female gossips.

... and she had worn bitterness as though it were a crown.

So shines a good deed... in a weary world.

Everybody can draw, in my estimation. If you give a man 50 years, he'll come up with the Mona Lisa.

God is our clothing, that wraps, clasps and encloses us so as to never leave us.

I've always believed that the greatest actors are the ones that have the voices that are imitable.

The proper use of comments is to compensate for our failure to express ourself in code.

The best and only true history we have. Everyone interested in creative writing should know this book.