A lot of what has pushed me forward is desire, and I have expressed that in my songwriting - perhaps because it's safer!

A lot of what has pushed me forward is desire, and I have expressed that in my songwriting - perhaps because it's safer!

The extreme side of my personality, which I chose to sort of display, was snowballing and getting a life of its own. It was like looking in a mirror and not recognising myself.

Well, the real sex organ is between the ears, not between the legs

Music has touched me deeply, sometimes to tears. But at the same time it's been life-affirming, because I've been grateful for the fact that I'm alive and human and capable of being so moved.

As musicians it's often difficult. You go to a dinner party and most people treat you like some kind of exotic animal and in a way like you don't have any problems and that it's all fantastic and glamorous and that you wake up in the morning, you kick the groupies out of bed, you roll onto the floor onto a needle, right, which fills you with a lovely substance, you roll into the gutter and you stare at the moon and out comes beautiful poetry. The fact of the matter is that that's nonsense. It's a lot of hard work.

When people hear the word “beautiful”, they expect something to be pretty. And for me that's not always necessarily the case, y'know.