The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?

If punk was about getting rid of hippies, then I'm getting rid of grunge.

Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.

I've always known I'm incredibly special. All my life. You know? It's not a big deal.

In the Sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal.

I was approached by Oxfam to go to Mali as their ambassador and get involved in their various initiatives out there. But I felt that was missing the point of using me, a musician

The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?