Music bypasses the intellect, it makes you laugh, makes you cry, makes you want to dance, makes you want to have sex.

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 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.

Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.

I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?

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

I've always been an outsider; a displaced person.