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

You'd like to know me well, but I've got things inside my head that even I can't face.

To be taken seriously about doing something creative and probably travel a lot. That was my motivation. I knew I was good, I knew I could write. I also knew you could get laid really easily.

I think everything that I learned about stagecraft and carrying through - creating a through point for a theatrical device.

Lou Reed is the most important definitive writer in modern rock. Not because of the stuff that he does, but the direction that he will take it.

This is a mad planet," David Bowie said in 1971. "It's doomed to madness.