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

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 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.

In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated.

I've discovered special makeup by a company called M.A.C. You could wear it on the surface of the sun and it wouldn't move.

The further I get from the things that I care about, the less I care about how much further away I get.

If you acquiesce to one interview, there's always another waiting in the wings. Also if you're interviewed repeatedly, you just start repeating yourself. I don't like to do that.