I get slightly irritated by people who say they're natural rebels because it just means that they're going to be against whatever anybody does, which is almost like saying you might as well leave it as it is.

What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.

What I like about popular culture is its accessibility, and I've covered popular songs because they are amazing things.

In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.

I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so.

Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

I don't want to be a professional cripple. And I don't see the suicide stuff as tragic.