I called to wish you an unhappy birthday because you're evil and you lie and if you should die I may feel slightly sad, but I won't cry.

I don't even know if I exist offstage.

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.

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

The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.

The word 'indie' is meaningless now. It's so over-used that people think it simply means green hair.

I think I must be, absolutely, a total sex object. In every sense of the word.