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.

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.

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 always craved to belong to somewhere, but I never have and never will.

It's refreshing to hear something that's pop but doesn't sound like Britney Spears.

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

I'm quite repulsed by the diva type.