It always felt like you were trying too hard to look like the audience or something. That whole thing about the artistic integrity, which, of course, I've never bought into - with any artist. It's just not a real thing.

I think music should be tarted up, made into a prostitute, a parody of itself. It should be the clown, the Pierrot medium.

There's a good television programme called 'Disco 2.' It's quite good but again it's average, average. It's all on a down play. You know we've got this thing in England to be hip is to speak very down - like John Peel. And that just about sums up England. They don't realize when they talk like that, then that is what they represent - absolutely.

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

I'm a born librarian with a sex drive.

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.

I'm quite certain that the audience that I've got for my stuff don't listen to the lyrics.