A lot of people that I know are bugged with the idea that they have got to have an audience, or they have got to be liked. I think the more that you fall into that trap it makes your own life harder to come to terms with, because an audience appreciation is only going to be periodic at the best of times.

I've made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I've made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I'm proud of what I've done. In fact it's been a good ride.

Strung out on lasers and slash back blazers.

My mother was a housewife. Both from - well, my father was from a farming family, agricultural family in the north of England. And my mother came from a very working class.

Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.

I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself.

You'd like to know me well, but I've got things inside my head that even I can't face.