My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well.

Despite what people might think, I'm not interested in being dark all the time. I'm actually searching for some kind of light, and I'm always very happy when I can achieve that.

The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.

To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It's exhausting.

Stars have their moments then they die.

The songs that I like are the ones that you can't visualize, that are just cries from the heart - those very straight, direct songs that make rock & roll music so wonderful.

I write songs in batches and then record them and then can't write again for ages. I try and build one song upon another, they may not obviously look inter-related but often one song acts as a springboard into another.