I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating.

If you get involved in music expecting to make a living out of it, then you've picked the wrong thing to do. That shouldn't really be in your mind.

It's good that I managed to hoodwink so many people. I am actually not that nice a person.

The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don't go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day of the week.

I'd been thinking I'd have to learn how to play really well, but obviously the message of punk was that you just learn three chords in a week and you're away.

I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled by it when I do.

I think that's what all art is for - for people to express what it is to be human. That's the purpose of it.