When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.

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.

The press Yazoo were receiving were focused on the voice, This obviously was about trends.

Within three months I had gone from being this black sheep of the town to suddenly becoming a pop star.

Yazoo is the name of an old blues label and also a town in America. I like it because it doesn't mean a thing, it has no immediate connotations. That's what I hate about so many names today - they're so obviously fashionable.

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.