Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.

Words cannot express quite a lot of feelings, whereas a noise or tone or drone or sound, an accordion falling down a staircase, can somehow capture an emotion much better.

I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.

You can always wake up on the wrong side of the bed and boo-hiss everyone suffers. We can all be temperamental.

I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I'm not a monster; I feel it and it scares me. One death at a time, please, is all my heart will bear.

The country you're born in is where your passport comes from. No, not according to Donald Trump! No, not at all. I resent that kind of extremism of any kind. Left wing, right wing. Anyway at all. Anything that judges other people so harshly and across the board stupidity-wise. I got no time for that.

Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music.