Cardinal rule for all hitters with two strikes on them: Never trust the umpire.

I am very self-conscious a lot of the time.

I just don't feel comfortable anymore with the kind of attention that I'm getting. It's purely the numbers of people that want a bit of the Cure or want a bit of me.

I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them.

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.

Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.