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 would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it.

I recently spent quite a bit of time in Sheffield, England, which is where I'm from. I wouldn't move back there, but it's funny when you spend a bit of time in the place where you were brought up. You kind of realize how that place has had quite a big effect on you or made you a certain way.

The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they can afford.

I don't really care what someone's background is; creativity can come from any background.

In a song you can kind of stage-manage everything so that it puts you in a good light. And once a song is recorded, it always performs well.

Don't think that the things around you don't count, because they do.