A lot of people have realized that a good spiritual practice and a good meditation practice have real benefit. It’s not just something nice to do to make the universe happy.

In the course of my life, I've made some happy songs but it's the more sort of like pathos-laden, emotional, melancholic music that either I make or that other people make that really resonates with me.

As music became more profitable in the 1990s, it seemed like it attracted a lot of people who were just interested in the financial aspect of it, which is depressing.

I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist.

I was trying to convince myself I could learn to be gay - but no. That's one of my great regrets.

I'm straight, but I love going to house music clubs and flirting with women and gay men.

If you look at someone like Joe Strummer or John Lennon, when you heard their music you knew that they wrote it and they cared about it.