I want to be alone and I want people to notice me — both at the same time.

If you Americans aren't from the stone age then explain to me how your president is a ****ing pterodactyl

My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is.

I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out.

At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour.

I had a dream where my face was a hamburger. What the?

I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.