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.

I'm a weirdo magnet, but I'm handling it better than I used to.

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.

Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.

My mouth has a tendency to get me into trouble, but because I'm so small and I take on people who are lager than me. If someone punched me, I'd get my drummer beat them up.

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

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.