I consider the Stooges to be pop music.

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.

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.

Life is a process of working out what's not working for you and disentangling yourself from it and trying then not walk into the same thing again. Watching your patterns and correcting them if you can.

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.

Fashion goes round in circles.