I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I have no other training.

I think that you have to experience darkness to feel empathy. For all of my failings - and I have many - I do have a complete ability to emphasize with people. And that all goes down to being "other." When you're young you think otherness is a state only you possess. When you get older you realize, "Actually, there's so many of us." In that we find community.

I wasn't good at being affable. You get beyond that and realise the attraction in any human being has more to do with what they give to someone rather than just being face candy.

I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I have no other training.

I came from a small town and at school in one class there was me, a member from Depeche Mode and someone who went on to join The Cure. That was all in one class of 30 kids.

When you make a lot of money for a record company, they don't want you to evolve. Growing older, you naturally do.

I think the world is a dead carcass and I think the purpose of human beings is as maggots.