I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled by it when I do..

I'd been thinking I'd have to learn how to play really well, but obviously the message of punk was that you just learn three chords in a week and you….

Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long try….

You have to create a bespoke cultural environment. I know this may be a kind of thing that an old person says, but I feel to quite a large extent I w….

France is a republic, and the rules in theory have been made by everyone rather than imposed by a dictatorship or king or whatever. So it's like, we'….

I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person..

The thing with Disney songs is they're very manipulative, very sentimental, but they do get you, you know - there's a kind of sadness to them and tha….

I am passionate about keeping the human dimension in things. You have to keep the rough edges and the inconsistencies, that's what makes it interesti….

I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and some….

In a song you can kind of stage-manage everything so that it puts you in a good light. And once a song is recorded, it always performs well..

I know that some filmmakers strive for a kind of naturalistic approach, but you're never going to capture something that's really natural - just the ….

I guess I'm fairly insistent and maybe consistent. If I decide I'll do something, I generally will..

One of the problems of our modern world is that there's a lot of things to work through, but, at some point, everybody should take a pause from that ….

A song can't be completely serious if you rhyme melodic with alcoholic..

I think life is more interesting when everybody's jumbled up together. When people separate out into cliques and things, it's okay, but it's a bit li….

People who make good music aren't necessarily nice people..

Everybody's a bit screwed up, you know. You can take it as symptoms of a disorder, or you can take it as personality. Me, I'd rather think it as part….

I'm always amazed by people who blog all the time and tweet all the time, and still get things done. I don't know how they do it..

For me, the great thing about music is that anybody can do it..

I've stuck to the same things for twenty years. I try to look like a slightly edgy geography teacher. Like what a geography teacher looked like when ….

I believe that humans adapt to circumstance. The Internet is quite an unprecedented circumstance, so it's going to take people a while to get their h….