It's not the side-effects of the cocaine - I'm thinking that it must be love. It's too late to be grateful, It's too late to be hateful, It's too late to be late again, The European cannon is here.

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.

I think that the history of rock could be recycled in a different way and brought back into focus without the luggage that comes along with it.

They [people] mistake fashion for style.

I'm really quite bipolar, and the depressed times, when everything felt like night, sometimes you get to such a low point that you physically beat at it until it bleeds - as you would say - bleeds till sunshine.

There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to what they think about it and I've taken their analysis to heart so much that I have taken up his thing. Writing what my audience is telling me to write.