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'd rather stay here with all the madmen than perish with the sadmen roaming free.

The only art I'll ever study is stuff I can steal from.

Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.

Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.

Having not really written any generational songs - I think maybe two or three of the songs that I've ever written have any bearing on the age of the listener. My stuff tends to be far more concerned with the spiritual and with subjects like isolation and being miserable.

I wanted to rewrite how rock music was perceived.