In retrospect, it's ridiculous that anyone saw me as a fashion icon, since all I was trying to do was to dumb down my middle-class look by messing with my hair. Throughout the eighties I was invariably half-sure and half-confident about whatever it was I wore…Still, I've always believed—still do—that the radical is far more interesting when it looks benign and ordinary on the outside.

No one talks about woman power. The Spice Girls - they're masquerading as little girls. It's repulsive.

It's hard to write about a love story with a broken heart.

When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even though you had no musical training.

Someone once wrote that in between the lives we lead and the lives we fantasize about living is the place in our heads where most of us actually live.

There's the added element of adrenaline if you're performing. You're aware of spatial relationships and the music.

If you don't fit into a certain type, there's a lot of strength in just being who you are.