I love being a freak. It's great!

There's a difference between 'glamour' and 'glam rock'. Glam rock, to me, is a bunch of straight, hairy, football-liking lager lads dressed up in mother's castoffs and glamour is a certain sophistication, a certain other-worldliness, a certain unattainableness, which I think we certainly calculate. We believe that a band should be slightly larger than life - you should be transported to an alternate reality. I'm giving you some really good answers here, I'm very proud of myself.

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

Everybody is trying to be so trendy. I think not being trendy should be the next trend.

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

When every day became a hangover and when you look at yourself in the mirror and go 'I don't like how you're coming across to people.' and when every day just started to feel the same. After the 50th shag, it doesn't mean so much anymore.

I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are never black and white, things are very much shades of grey.