There's too much rock that relies a fetishism or nostalgia for the old ways. That's a real enemy to music.

Nobody starts a band to make friends; you do it because of the music.

There's so much to be said for making your guitar sound like a synthesizer and try to make your drummer sound like a drum machine.

I'm really excited about the remixes. I've always been a fan of electronic music and I'm thinking about that very seriously for the next record as well.

Everyone tries to research your background. I have a real fear of celebrity and exposing my real self.

I never understood the low art/high art distinction.

I never saw the point in listening to only one thing. The low art/high art distinction comes from the establishment telling me how I'm supposed to think.

Patriotism is a joke in the UK.

Youth is so cynical. There's never anything to believe in as a teen.

Even that word depends on what you mean by pop. I mean, pop music has currency. It could just be about that girl who's in love with you.

I think there's real currency in pop culture.

People make the rules of society, not God.

Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?

To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past.

Where you been, girl?” Harvey answered. “I’ve been sendin’ you twits for the last hour.

My love life couldn't be more nonexistent if Julius was all all-girls' boarding school with a moat full of alligators around it.

To tell you the truth, I dislike anything that is in fashion.

The trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry.

Disease is cured by the body itself, not by doctors or remedies.

If any of you cry at my funeral I'll never speak to you again.

Sometimes you have to make bold choices, creatively. I'm always in favor of that.