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.

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'm a crap guitarist and I find it really hard writing on my own.

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.

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.

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