Trust your instincts: they tend to see you right. By listening to them, at least you can sleep at night.

Some people are really good at packaging themselves, but that's not really me.

Yeah, I'm not really a morning person.

I'm a sucker for sad disco pop.

A lot of what inspired many musicians is celebrating differences, and people relate to that - more people feel like the unpopular, freaky one than the one in the in-crowd.

I like the influence of the macabre, but I don't believe in ghosts.

Some people can get away with being very sexy to men and not looking like a complete cow, but I didn't think I was in a position where people knew me well enough

I used to be hung up on my figure, but it's a waste of time. I don't believe in diets. Have four pints one night, be healthy the next.

Not all my shoes are designer. In terms of clothes, everything is on the same level for me. If I like it, it doesn't matter if it cost £200 or £2. I'm attracted to things rather than labels.

When I first started out, I got criticism for the way I looked. I think, now, it's a good thing because, why would you want to look like everyone else?

Two premature babies was not a genetic thing; we were just unlucky.

Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.

You can only get to where you want to be, through where you are now.

Did you look for the truth?You can't find it, don't you. You can't find the truth, because we even creating it.

I can barely breathe but I think that his lips might be better than oxygen at the moment.

Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.

Whenever the press quits abusing me, I know I'm in the wrong pew.

I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another.

...discussing cultural relativism with cultural relativists is like playing tennis with some guy who says, "Your ace is just a social construct.

It is one of those things that is universally connectable, people can connect to it from everywhere; music is like that universal language.

I'm getting back to my old roots.