I wasn’t thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time, at the time, I thought I was inventing a new sound that would change the whole outlook of music. I’ve discovered in the last few years that it was just the Seattle Sub Pop sound.

There's nothing more comfortable than a cosy flower pattern.

My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

If I wouldn't have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

Absolutely. Slade! A band that would never bend over.

I'm not like them, but I can pretend.

I've had this terrible stomach problem for years, and that has made touring difficult. People would see me sitting in the corner by myself looking sick and gloomy. The reason is that I was trying to fight against the stomach pain, trying to hold my food down. People looked me and assumed I was some kind of addict.