I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss.

Style to me is incidental. The British are very adept at creating it for its own sake, but the best style is incidental. John Coltrane had a style but it was totally incidental to what he was.

I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you.

The song Venus de Milo, the whole subject of it is Love is a drug.

I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss.

With my records, it's just a matter of trying to create something fresh for myself in a very finite context, which is the pop song. I don't know anything about the people who buy my records, and what, if anything, they get out of them.

Everybody's out trying to be commercial. I'm not trying to be anything, really.