I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.

My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.

I married somebody who likes the way I look. If I changed my hair every year, and I reinvented myself in time-honoured pop fashion, I think understandably the person I'm married to would grow slightly sick of me.

If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work.

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

I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop.

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.'