I love being a freak. It's great!

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.

Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.

I was always a bit of a loose cannon, then again I was always the artistic one: bit of a social misfit. I probably still am.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.

I want to be a better person. I want to be a stronger person. I want to be someone who hurts less.

You lose so many material possessions being on the road. You can't get too attached to stuff and you have to remember that people must never become possessions. People are spheres intersecting. You have to make sure that one sphere doesn't ever take over the other. Individuality is absolutely the most important thing