I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification. And in a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.

Music's free and music's for everyone to enjoy and express and interpret. It transcends countries and times and decades.

Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.

We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.

I always think that the exceptional people are those who remain outsiders but still communicate on a grand scale. I think I want everyone to feel more free, and so I feel really claustrophobic on behalf of lots of people.

I've hidden behind my hair more than clothes. Sometimes having long hair with a fringe is very useful when you don't want to look at people. I used to have very short hair, but long hair is my thing - a black nocturnal shield.

I'd tell everyone to come in naked in full body paint.