I think I'm a realist. Which people who don't like me consider to be pessimism. It isn't pessimism at all. If I was a pessimist I wouldn't get up, I wouldn't shave, I wouldn't watch Batman at 7:30 a.m. Pessimists just don't do that sort of thing.

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

That was the problem with the 'celibate' word because they don't consider for a moment that you'd rather not be, but you just are. I was never a sexual person.

I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make.

I avoid people who I actually like. I suppose that’s a phobia but also a habit.

Now this might disturb you, but I find I'm OK by myself; and I don't need you or your benevolence to make sense.

The only thing that could possibly save British politics would be Margaret Thatcher's assassin.