I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.

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.

Hunting Bears is a complex song. A bear, as you know is another term for a chubby chaser. The guitar line is actually the sound of a fat man's thighs rubbing together as he approaches another lardy male for a night of sexual deviance.

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'm glad I escaped the clutches of those evil gnomes... I'm talking, of course, about Puerto Ricans.

In America, there seems to be more focus on the idea that it's important to do things differently. In Britain, it's not an issue.

Well, it only dawned on me about six months ago that not everybody's against me all the time. It was something of a revelation.