If you feel alienated from people around you, it's because no one tries to understand you.

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 don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.

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.

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.

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

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