I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar.

For the first time in my life the eternal 'I' becomes 'we', as, finally, I can get on with someone.

Robert Smith is a whingebag.

Even though I've been reasonably well known for quite a long time, I still can't get a record on daytime radio or on MTV.

Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.

You are bound to pick up influences.

I am stuck in the dream of an album that sells well not because of marketing, but because people like the songs.