I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.

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

The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint, it's an honorable thing to spend all day and all night in front of your canvas - that is the romantic vision of the painter.

I love being manipulated by what I see. I love weepies and romantic comedies where you're reaching for the Kleenex at the right moment.

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.

The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.

Stars have their moments then they die.