Popular music is slowly being laid to rest in every conceivable way... the ashes are already about us if we could but notice them.

When you're younger, you see the people who are in power and think they must have that position because of some degree of skill. And as you get older, you realize it's not true, that most people in those positions are absolutely inept. And this naturally makes you feel better about yourself.

I don't iron anything. Never have and never will.

I lie a lot - it's really useful.

There's so much destruction all over the world - and all you can do is complain about ME!

I would rather eat my own testicles than reform The Smiths, and that's saying something for a vegetarian.

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.