I've always been an outsider; a displaced person.

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.

Give people the chance to change their heart.

Of course you're sorry. The first words out of the mouths of men who are caught doing something they're only too happy to continue until they're caught.

True luck consists not in holding the best cards at the table luckiest he who knows just when to rise and go home.

When I want to talk to someone from Golden Boy, I make sure Richard calls me. Bosses talk to bosses.

The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.

Realistic thinking is based on what others think is possible-but they are not you and have no way of knowing your potential and purposes

All knowledge that is not the real product of observation, or of consequences deduced from observation, is entirely groundless and illusory.

Look, how many stories have I broken? Hundreds. How many have proved to be untrue? There isn't one.

Second only to freedom, learning is the most precious option on earth.

Yeah, it's a weird little niche, but by God, it's my niche.