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 don't seem to meet very many men I find attractive. And usually when I meet them and develop crushes on them they are usually straight. So I end up having more relationships with women.

I had a great deal of arrogance and a great deal of bravado, but I think the bravado was brought on by a huge insecurity.

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.

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

The more personal you make something, the more universal it becomes, because essentially we're all made up of the same emotional stuff.