I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.

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.

There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off.

I wore makeup when I was at school, and I wore makeup when glam started. I started wearing it again when punk started. I've always been drawn to wearing it. It's partly ritualistic, partly theatrical and partly just because I think I look better with it on.

The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.

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.'

There may be said to be three sorts of lawyers, able, unable, and lamentable.