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.

We are young, beautiful scum pissed off with the world.

Self abuse is anti-social, aggression still natural.

When I sit in my bedroom with a book and a bottle of vodka, I do it because I'm sad, not because I think it's cool. I do it because I want to forget what I am thinking about.

We hate Slowdive more than we hate Hitler.

In terms of the 'S' word, that does not enter my mind. And it never has done. In terms of An Attempt. Because I am stronger than that. I might be a weak person, but I can take pain.

I have no regrets. Regrets are meaningless. You can't change yesterday or tomorrow. You can change only this present moment.