I used to fly off the handle in everyday life, but I'm a little calmer now.

Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.

I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect.

Don't let small minded people dictate how you should look and be free.

I want to be a better person. I want to be a stronger person. I want to be someone who hurts less.

When people hear the word “beautiful”, they expect something to be pretty. And for me that's not always necessarily the case, y'know.

Good conversation turns me on. A connection between two people, a mental one first.

There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.

I feel very comfortable with the way I look, and I feel very comfortable with the kind of confusion that it creates in people's minds.

Music has touched me deeply, sometimes to tears. But at the same time it's been life-affirming, because I've been grateful for the fact that I'm alive and human and capable of being so moved.

You would not like me if you knew me.

Don't die famous. The things they will say you did and said would make you rise up in anger if you were alive.

The events of the Titanic disaster can be seen as a symbol of what happens through overconfidence in technology, complacence, and a mindset of profits over people's safety.

If you hate what you get for Christmas, try to focus on the person who gave the gift to you, not what came in the box.

A series is a big deal, and there are a lot of people out there writing stuff that don't know what art is.

If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?

A house is not a home until it has a dog.

I'm neither Catholic not Protestant. Protestant sounds good but I don't think I am.

I expected to have one husband and seven babies. Instead I had seven husbands and one living baby.

Nothing stays the same, nothing remains static. Which way a thing changes depends on you.

If you want to be a top athlete you have to be a little bit wild, not be an accountant.