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.'

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

I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small.

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

I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.

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

I'm not going to worry about the Cure slipping down into the second division; it doesn't bother me because I never expected to be in the first division anyway