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

Because our daughters have school and it's just such a hassle going down to New York all the time, we can really only go on the weekends, we kind of... Steve came up here and worked out stuff for the second half of the record.

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

Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries, because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up.

Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.

No one ever questions the disorder behind her tarantula LA glamour – sociopathy, narcissism – because it’s good rock and roll, good entertainment! I have a low tolerance for manipulative, egomaniacal behaviour, and usually have to remind myself that the person might be mentally ill.

Many designers are gay men making clothes for women. Sometimes I think fashion is more of a conversation between men than it is for women.