I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.

You're never quite sure where the song is going, because you might not find the word to rhyme with the end of the line. You have to find associative meaning to get you there. So it's rather like doing a crossword puzzle backwards. A kind of strange, three-dimensional, abstract crossword puzzle.

Desire, despair, desire. So many monsters.

When you're that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can't really tell whether you have created the momentum or it's creating you.

There is a big difference between what I do onstage and what I do in my private life. I don't put my living room on magazine pages.

When things are starting to work, you get up at five in the morning thinking, what are we going to do today? You stay up until one in the morning getting it done, and then you start the next day with the same energy, because it's working!

I'm not living my life under the spotlight for anybody.