I've seen many of my contemporaries become superstars, and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people, and I think it's ugly.

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.

You can't love a cat the way you love a dag because a cat can not do dog work

Miracles become inevitable when one starts to work harder, and smarter with a strong belief that God is on one's side and will always be.

Just as evil communication and company corrupts good manners, good communication and company can correct bad manners

A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon squanders its liberty and freedom.

I like to listen to a lot of classical music when I'm painting, the most simplistic stuff I can find. I like simple piano.

I hate seeing people that look like you. Especially if God's living by the motto 'If at first you don't succeed.'

I'm lucky to have the privilege of being able to choose what I want to do.

The 'kingdom of God' is not something one waits for; it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come 'in a thousand years' it is an experience within a heart; it is everywhere, it is nowhere.

No problem exists in isolation, one must first reduce it to its basic components, then tackle each component in turn.

Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times.