I don't really think that there is anyone in the modern pop business who I feel I want to spar with.

I think marriage is a good thing for children, because it gives them a feeling of security.

Yeah, I'm going to need a leather jacket for when I'm on my hog and need to go into a controlled slide.

I'm a perfectionist. It's a big pain in the ass and it takes a lot of my time, but it really is going well and I have to do my own things.

I'm perfectly happy to admit that insecurity. It doesn't bother me. It's there, just the same as the color of my eyes is there. I'm never going to get rid of it. I'm not going to wake up one morning and really like the way I look, but as long as other people like the way I look, that's fine.

I was supposed to be a real Thatcherite. Just by dint of being a first-generation immigrant and having not had money, and then suddenly having it - and getting on planes and going to Ibiza and sitting around in thongs. But actually nothing I was writing or doing was even vaguely Thatcherite.

By the time I was in my early teens, we were able to move into a much more middle-class area. I had a comfortable adolescence.