Hey man, I gotta straighten my face. This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place.

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.

I have found myself deeply, deeply intrigued by the ska-punk scene. It's such an expressive form of popular music, it's so real, it's got so much life: it's the most vital music in the world.

You know, I don't feel fifty. I feel not a day over forty-nine. It's incredible. I'm bouncy, I feel bouncy.

I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?

Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.