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 guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect.

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

I'd like to be more of a bad influence than a role model. I'm getting lots of boys to wear eye-liner again which is good.

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.

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.

I'd be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from your life and walk hand in hand with Jesus. I would hate for my death to be tragic: I'd like to be old when it happens. But hopefully a young death is unlikely.