Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.

I'm in the strange position of the world drifting away from me, but you know what? I'm actually quite content with that. It doesn't bother me in the slightest. I don't feel like, 'Oh God, I'm being left behind.'

Hendrix was the first person I had come across who seemed completely free, and when you're nine or 10, your life is entirely dominated by adults. So he represented this thing that I wanted to be. Hendrix was the first person who made me think it might be good to be a singer and a guitarist - before that I wanted to be a footballer.

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

It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good at the political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa.

Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage.

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