I'm English. I can't accept happiness that easily. There's got to be a trick in there somewhere.

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

I am a moderately good singer. I am not a great singer but I can interpret a song, which I don't think is quite the same as singing it.

I was always accused of being cold and unfeeling. It was because I was intimidated about touching people.

Sexuality and where it is going is an extraordinary question, for I don't see it going anywhere. It is with me, and that's it.

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

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.