Patriotism is a joke in the UK.
You can't help hearing things that are popular when you're young and impressionable.
I have a real problem with rock music because it seems that lineage doesn't really exist.
There's so much that you can do if you mimic your style to a drum machine. I think that's far more exciting.
Nobody starts a band to make friends; you do it because of the music.
I think Paris Hilton is really our generation's Marilyn Monroe. She's the image of the youth today. There's a real fascination with Paris, ranging on the obsessive. I'm repulsed by her, but because of her notoriety, she has access to an audience.