There's a lot of rage you have to express it somehow. If I didn't express it in song, I'd become incredibly violent.

Most of my life I've had long periods of feeling down and lost. That's why every five years or so I've smashed my life to pieces and started again.

I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13.

I consider the Stooges to be pop music.

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.

I absolutely hate Take That, East 17, the Spice Girls.

[Bananarama] were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite the press