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.

If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.

Depression scares people off. It makes me laugh that it has that kind of effect.

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.

If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you.

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

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