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.

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

I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us.

Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts.

It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.

A lot of journalists give me a hard time about how I look, but I've never met a journalist I'd rather look like.

I think, at heart, unless you discover faith in something else, something other, it's very hard to shake the thing that you're adrift alone.