The word 'indie' is meaningless now. It's so over-used that people think it simply means green hair.

Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.

I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living.

The rhino is now more or less extinct, and it's not because of global warming or shrinking habitats. It's because of Beyonce's handbags.

It's so easy to laugh, It's so easy to hate, It takes guts to be gentle and kind.

I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.

I do think it's possible to go through life and never fall in love, or find someone who loves you.

Robert Smith is a whingebag.

Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life that you'd like to.

Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.

He referred to me as an 'insufferable puffed-up prat'. This is a bit rich coming from a man who actually married his own mother.

…reality is the make-believe of the majority that can only thrive in conformity.

If you're afraid to smile, you're afraid of life.

Only the familiar transformed by genius is truly great.

One of my big inspirations was Céleste Mogador. She was a courtesan who wrote her memoirs in order to pay off her debts, which is a hilarious gesture.

The short-story writer knows that he can't proceed cumulatively, that time is not his ally. His only solution is to work vertically, heading up or down in literary space.

Freemasonry, Judaism, and Occultism, whose alliance and reciprocal interpretation no longer require demonstration.

We may disagree on methods [with Martin Luther King], but we don't have to argue all day on methods.

Now and then it's clear to me, that need is love, and love is need.

The new generation of consoles has as much power to do the kind of games that we do as the PC does.