Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.

I love performing. I can get to be that person I always wanted to be - godlike.

There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain.

As people buy less and less records, it's become more and more important for me to spend more and more on them - to lavish that much more attention on them. The Bad Seeds were always quite protective and old school, but Grinderman has opened us up to do anything and be shameless. We're not so precious about it.

I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts know it That you weren't much of a muse, but then I weren't much of a poet

Hamlet got a gun now.

Inspiration is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything. I go into my office every day that I'm in Brighton and work. Whether I feel like it or not is irrelevant.