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.

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.

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

Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

The little flowers grew everywhere around the rocks, and no one had asked them to grow, or me to grow.

See, winners embrace hard work.

Winning the World Cup was the worst thing that ever happened to the England team.

The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice.

It is better to aim high and miss than to aim low and hit.

Character alone will have real effect on the masses.

It is a great moment in life when a father sees a son grow taller than he or reach farther.

Don't confuse facts with reality.

If you wear clothes that don't suit you, you're a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better.