I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.

Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.

When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, 'cause that was what got played in the house. But when I first saw the Stranglers, I thought, 'This is it.'

I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.

Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.

True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.

In all relationships, there are always aching holes and that's where the impossible wishes come into it.