There's a weighing kind of overemphasis on sexuality, which disempowers music generally, because it silences all the other voices; it makes music a very powerless force for changing the world.

I guess I'm a Holy Spirit maniac. I'm not a religious maniac. I love religion, but I don't like it.

God is something that needs rescuing from religion.

I suppose the biggest change to me is this kind of very oversexualizing of everything. Not that anyone wants to take the sex out of rock 'n' roll, you know - that would be ludicrous - but it seems that everything now, it's like the sexuality is the only voice; everything else is gone.

I think people who come from abuse and/or people who have mental illnesses, have terrible self-esteem problems.

You must not try to be too pure, you must fly closer to the sea.

It's very hard to be perceived as a boss, and behaving like a boss or wanting to be treated like one.