I feel that's important that I have some place to go that isn't on the cover of a magazine. I signed up to make music.

Youth is so cynical. There's never anything to believe in as a teen.

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.

There's so much to be said for making your guitar sound like a synthesizer and try to make your drummer sound like a drum machine.

I never saw the point in listening to only one thing. The low art/high art distinction comes from the establishment telling me how I'm supposed to think.

You can't help hearing things that are popular when you're young and impressionable.

Patriotism is a joke in the UK.