He [Elton John] is pushing his face in all the time and telling us about his private life. Nobody's interested. He should just go away.

I was never young. This idea of fun: cars, girls, saturday night, bottle of wine... to me, these things are morbid. I was always attracted to people with the same problems as me. It doesn't help when most of them are dead.

I think labels for the most part want to sign new discoveries so that that label alone is seen to be responsible for the rise of the artist. Not many labels want bands who have already made their mark, because their success is usually attributed to some other label somewhere else at another time.

Jesus made me, so he should save me from pity, sympathy and idiots discussing me.

You are bound to pick up influences.

If you respect or love animals you could never eat them. It's that simple

Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.