I think we were all initially swept along with the Obama win, but he's proven to be simply a set of teeth, and useless in every other regard.

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.

Can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary and psychologically save me?

I'm just happy being dumpy. Dumpy, fat and middle-aged.

I still prefer horses to human beings.

Even with the recent story about the nurse killing herself in King Edward Hospital, there's no blame placed on Kate Middleton, who was in the hospital as far as I could see for absolutely no reason. She feels no shame about the death of this woman, she's saying nothing about the death of this poor woman. The arrogance of the British royals is staggering, absolutely staggering. And why it's allowed to be I really don't know... It wasn't because of two DJs in Australia that this woman took her own life, it was the pressure around her.

Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.