Everything was meant to wind people up [in Make It Big ]. I don't know why we had this great pleasure in winding people up, but we really did think they would get the joke. And it backfired on us.

I want to make a pop album - something more upbeat than my stuff was in the '90s.

I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as well write the script.

Without despair, we will share, and the joys of caring will not be erased. What has been, must never end, the joys of caring will not be replace.

I'm never going to dance again. Guilty feet have got no rhythm.

It was like I had a curse on me. I couldn't believe how much God was piling on. There was so much death around me.

I guess I was about 15. I wore glasses at the time, and I remember [first girlfriend] sitting on the floor at a party, one of those school parties where everyone is getting off with each other. I remember her taking my glasses off and saying something very complimentary about my eyes or whatever, and I was just so pissed off because I was convinced she was taking the piss out of me.