There's a lot of rage you have to express it somehow. If I didn't express it in song, I'd become incredibly violent.

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.

I should love her like there is an ache that won't go away unless I'm with her.

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.

I have always wanted to deal with everyone I meet candidly and honestly. If I have made any assertion not warranted by facts, and it is pointed out to me, I will withdraw it cheerfully.

Just like an alley in New York -like every alley in the world, apparently- it smelled like cat pee.

I wonder if these editors, why they're not writers sometimes, because they know so much about writing.

So some will be left who remember.

If we want to keep farmers in business, it's time for all of us, ordinary citizens and policy makers alike, to begin learning how that might be done. Sharing the Harvest is a great place to start.

A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.

All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing.

Generally, we admire the thing we are not.