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

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

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.

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

We live in a strange bubble.

I had quite a religious upbringing. I gave my life over to Christ at 11. I took it back when I was about 14.

I feel very comfortable with the way I look, and I feel very comfortable with the kind of confusion that it creates in people's minds.