Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.

I've seen many of my contemporaries become superstars, and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people, and I think it's ugly.

I never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet.

I'm a crap guitarist and I find it really hard writing on my own.

I've tended to avoid meeting my heroes. They aren't necessarily the nicest people anyway. The exception was George Harrison, one of the loveliest men I've ever met. He lent me his home studio to make Hormonally Yours.

I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn't matter if you can't play a note, it's how you communicate.

It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.