You get paid and you get venerated and worshipped for pretending to be somebody else.

The idea of being icons, I think it's great when you're 24. It's fantastic.

I do know that there is a difference between artists who are career-driven and artists who have a calling and are just compelled to make music, compelled to perform live, and the business isn't the reason they're doing it. In fact, there isn't really a reason. You just do it.

I think there's a lot of people who are afraid to experiment with clothing because they're afraid to get judged or ridiculed.

You get paid and you get venerated and worshipped for pretending to be somebody else.

What is the popular image of rock star? A rail-thin, overly-paid, narcissistic, average-talented individual who self-implodes in front of everybody, eternally having a party and who looks eternally youthful?

You come out of a working-class environment, you know, working-class kids always put them themselves together because it's one of the only things they had. You had control of your image.