Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed to sleep. It's always in the middle of the night, or you're half-awake or tired, when your critical faculties are switched off. So letting go is what the whole game is. Every time you try to put your finger on it, it slips away. You turn on the lights and the cockroaches run away. You can never grasp them...

I must say the more interesting songs to me were the black ones because they were more simple.

It's like being possessed: like a psychic or a medium. I felt like a hollow temple filled with many spirits, each one passing through me, each inhabiting me for a little time and then leaving to be replaced by another.

I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically.

Don't let them fool you with dope and cocaine, can't do you know harm to feel your own pain.

A Conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words.

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.