Human beings aren't meant to be solely consumers - eventually, something has to come out. Otherwise, I don't really see what the point of all that consumption is. The idea behind watching things and listening to things is that it stirs something within you, and hopefully that will stimulate you to then create your own thing.

Hawkwind are one of those bands that people introduce you to because you don't see them on the covers of magazines. I'd heard 'Silver Machine' but Russell Senior, who was in Pulp, got me into them. They had a song called 'Master Of The Universe' and we nicked the title in 1985 for one of our songs.

For me, the great thing about music is that anybody can do it.

Often people poopoo melody as if it's a cheap trick to make people like things, but in my experience it's the hardest part of the tune, to find something that doesn't immediately remind you of something that's happened before.

I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.

I'm always amazed by people who blog all the time and tweet all the time, and still get things done. I don't know how they do it.

You can do anything when you're famous. That's why famous people are so dumb.