I remember when my father was dying, I remember listening to Bjork, and listening to John Coltrane, and these things, and I don't know why but music has the power to transcend your physical being and take you up just a little bit.

We want, or wanted, to believe that without love we would disappear, that love, somehow, would save us that, yeah, if we have love, give love and know love, we are truly alive and if there is no love, there would be no life. The Terror is, we know now, that even without love, life goes on... we just go on there is no mercy killing.

I know that is absolutely true for people when they are young - you don't want to be alive if the things that you love in your life aren't there.

I think if you're lucky, you start to make music and it gets things out.

We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.

I stopped caring so much about what people might think if I sung about love and humanity.

Some people, they don't want to be that loved, they don't want to be that involved, they don't want to be part of your family. That's where the pain comes in. You want the world to be what you want it to be, and sometimes the world doesn't want that.