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.

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac.

It is entirely possible to create something totally artificial within the realms of rock and roll.

You go through stages where you wonder whether you are Christ, or just looking for him.

You can't go on stage and live - it's false all the way. I can't stand the premise of going out in jeans and a guitar and looking as real as you can in front of 18,000 people. I mean, it's not normal!

I made a more mature approach to industrial music.