I've never done anything deliberately; I just speak my mind, and that is what I consistently do and will always do in any way shape or form that I can.

Only the fakes survive.

I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig.

I always feel like a bit of an outsider myself, but as a working class lad, the system was always against me. The British system itself and then of course all the illnesses that were challenging to me.

I'm aware of my songs. I'm aware of them because they're about true emotions, true feelings, things that matter.

Punks in their silly leather jackets are a cliché. I have never liked the term and have never discussed it. I just got on with it and got out of it when it became a competition.

Any kind of history you read is basically the winning side telling you the others were bad.