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

I get given loads of rubbish. So, I have two Alanis Morissette records which I hide when anyone with taste calls around.

Dresses, I find, are impractical in social situations, but I enjoy wearing them a great deal on stage.

Names for bands lose their meaning after a little while. They become a series of sounds that you associate with people in music, really. The most important thing about choosing a name for a band is if you can imagine forty-thousand people screaming it in unison.

I had quite a religious upbringing. I gave my life over to Christ at 11. I took it back when I was about 14.

I'm really bad with jokes. I would have to say Limp Bizkit.

I think what you have to realise is that our generation is the first generation since its sexual awakening has come into the world and realised that sex can mean, ultimately, death. That has had a very serious effect on social morals and on the way people deal with each other. As we approach the millennium, people are getting more and more confused and contact is getting more and more sanitised, so there's a lot more mental games being played.