I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.

I'm very shy. That's probably one of the reasons I got so heavily into drugs.

We see each other [ with Iman Abdulmajid] a lot. I couldn't stand to be separated for months. It became quickly apparent to me that I needed to find a balance between my absolute work obsession and a private life that we could share without my disappearing all the time.

If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.

I don't live for the stage. I don't live for an audience.

Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold. I will buy a chair for my house. What style of chair are you gonna buy? Everything we look at and choose is some way of expressing how we want to be perceived. I mean, why bother choosing a chair because it looks a certain way? Because there's gonna be something about that chair that says something about you.