There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

I love discordancy. It makes people ill at ease and wakes up a part of their brain that's normally asleep.

Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.

The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute.

I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician.

Any new ideas go into PiL. My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to. I don't listen to any music when I'm in PiL-zone, because influences can poison your well. Otherwise, I listen to anything.

Love is two minutes fifty-two seconds of squishing noises. It shows your mind isn't clicking right.