I don't believe in pets. I like animals to be wild and free.

Music is escapism from the grim realities of life. But then as soon as you escape into the music, from my point of view, I found I had to deal with the very things that I thought I was running away from. I wanted to hit those problems on the head and resolve them. So they didn't remain as issues in my psyche.

Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name.

I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.

U2 - that's a band that never should have existed. There's no life experience in any of their songs.

Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating.

It's nice to be irritated. It's a very joyous thing.