I'm a crap guitarist and I find it really hard writing on my own.

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.

Every girl should have at least one wild fling on her resumé.

I was reborn...as ME!

Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages.

Fashion exerts more power in science than it does on the shape of hats.

If we were logical the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings and we have faith and we have hope.

Because it is less structured than work leisure time leaves workaholics at a loss for what to do. Workaholics practically climb the wall when they can't work.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

I took up leprosy work. Not to help anyone, but to overcome that fear in my life. That it worked out good for others was a by-product. But the fact is: I did it to overcome fear.

I was taken to the hospital for observation. I stayed several days, didn't observe anything, and I left.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.