It's all about self-discipline. Like, self-obsession is connected completely with self-loathing, and it's the same with, if you've got a weight problem. It's all about... finding some worth in yourself, knowing that you've got the discipline to do it, and knowing that other people maybe can't do it. And it's also, I think, really connected to the fact that you almost feel, like, silent, you have no voice, you're mute, there's just no, you've got no option. Even if you could express yourself nobody would listen anyway. Things that go on inside you, there's no other way to get rid of them.

We hate Slowdive more than we hate Hitler.

Everything in life has let me down.

I find cutting myself attractive ... I find it sexual.

It’s important not to be embarrassed by your past. The contradictions are part of what we are.

I'm not a person who can scream and shout so this is my only outlet. It's all done very logically.

There's an awful lot of white British kids who have never really gone hungry, always had a roof to live under but at the same time are desperately unhappy. It's not total poverty, just a poverty of ideas.