An audience is the perfect thing to unleash venom and hate on. It doesn't necessarily mean you hate everyone in the audience but when you've got a so-called adoring mass in front of you, it's a perfect target for that kind of disgust. Sometimes you find yourself in a position where you're venting your disgust on an audience and a lot of them keep coming back 'cos they actually like that aspect. In a way that diffuses the feeling and you don't gel the same release.

Look, when I look back, from 20 onwards, I was actually having a pretty good time, I have to say.

I write hate lyrics really well. It's not every day you can use them, really.

Anything that I'm doing I'm writing specifically for a particular project.

If I'm hanging around too much, my wife and kids say, 'Hey, why don't you go downstairs and start a new novel?'

I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.

And I kissed away a thousand tears My lady of the Various Sorrows Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen Some kept safe for tomorrow.