I don't like old friends talking to me like I'm a pop star, cos it makes me feel like I'm becoming two-dimensional.

I could not extrapolate some emotion from any song after 1997 so I bought a drum machine and popped pills. The pink ones make me funny like elephants!

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.

People sometimes say we take things too seriously, but it's the only way you'll get anywhere.

When even your fans are writing to tell you to get a life, you know you need to listen.

Where are you sleeping tonight? Face down in the mud? That's a British tradition: Take acid and fall asleep in some field.

I was abducted by aliens as a boy. Aliens is the name of a pedophile who lived in my alley.