I've always been an outsider. I am an outsider in Garbage. I'm the odd one out by default.

I have women who offer to sleep with me all the time. But not men. They're all talk and nay action - as we'd say in Scotland.

My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket.

It's really difficult to navigate attention and stardom and celebrity status and still try to maintain yourself and hold onto your intelligence and integrity. It's really challenging.

I think it's about time the world embraced its geekiness and stopped trying to be cool. It's just...you have way more fun as a geek than as a cool person.

I wouldn't say that cutting was pleasurable, but there is a sense of euphoria that follows cutting yourself. The quick pinch of pain and the sight of blood snaps you back to the surface and you start to appreciate being alive.

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.