I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.

I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.

I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.

Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.

I watched Picasso visit the Planet of the Apes, as the masters rot on walls and the angels eat the grapes.

I always like to tell a story.

I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'