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'm not one for like soul-searching, sour fizzy moments. I come from the school of hard knocks, "f**king get on with it", that's it.

I think there's something basically wrong with the general public that they do need their icons.

Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.

I've always despised the hippies.

I applaud the effort it takes to put a record together.

I have the integrity of a teenager and that's never going to be stolen from me. I'm the original virgin.