I'm blind without my glasses..

Creative people are more prone to depression..

It's good to play 100 per cent live - no tricks, no samples, no messing about..

Let's just say that back in the old days, sex was available every two feet. But I never made love to anybody that did not want me to..

I just think, certainly for live music it should look as good as it sounds..

I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music..

I could be religious, if they sang the hymns to disco..

When they saw you kneeling, crying words you mean. Opening their eyeballs, eyeballs, pretending that your Al Green, Al Green..

I'm a punk rocker. I don't do Christian..

I didn't lose my virginity until I was 18 The first time was a nightmare. Who shows you how to use a condom?.

An 18th century brain, in a 21st century head..

I am quite an early riser - I usually get up between 5.30 and 6am and take the dogs out..

If you make a mistake, you should enjoy it..

When I was sectioned for six months, that was one of the worst experiences of my life, not being able to go out and have freedom. Having experienced ….

It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar or a pen for seven years..

I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college..

I loved being in a band..

Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all yo….

The touring was crazy, it was a lot of work. But I enjoyed it..

To me, style is consistency..

When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things..