Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.

Speak in extremes, it'll save you time.

I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.

I went to a middle-class school, but my background is working class. I got the best of both worlds, I saw both classes, so I have a pretty fair idea of how people live and why they do it.

I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.

I think it's rather a waste of time endlessly singing the same songs every night for a year, and it's just not what I want to do.

Someday, I'm gonna write a poem in a letter; Someday, I'm gonna get that faculty together.