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'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.

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 put something you like on really loud, and you feel godlike.

Don't worry about how something is going to happen, just know that it is all unfolding perfectly, whether you can see it or not.

Sunrise: day's great progenitor.

Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike.

The fact was, Ford kept stumbling around. I didn't want him in the White House. I wanted Carter in, and I had a forum of 20 million people watching.

She would say, "Someone should invent something to do with things you cannot use anymore but that you still cannot throw out.

The American people have issues. They've got concerns. We need solutions, solutions to the issues that the American people care about that are built on our principles.

I was an alcoholic, for sure. It became a problem steadily over the course of six years.

Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.

Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe is artistic

The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.