I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music... It's my fascination, my on-going passion.

You put something you like on really loud, and you feel godlike.

I really, really love music. I'm affected by it and uplifted by it, and made to laugh and cry, and almost fall in love with the person who has made me feel so brilliant and communicated so profoundly to me.

I'm quite repulsed by the diva type.

I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.

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.

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