I do believe in ghosts, but I haven't seen one. I can imagine that you cross over to the other side, some different dimension or whatever, but how do your clothes get there? Ghosts are always wearing clothes.
I've carved a different path which is not that affected by what happens in the bad side of politics. I've always surrounded myself with music and art and love and all those things - pleasures that are sort of immune from all that.
I was vegan for about 20 years.
I squatted for most of my adult life. I'm not condoning squatting; it was just the only way I could do what I wanted to do. I didn't have, you know, a trust fund or parents that could help out.
It feels like being in a band is a luxury now: like you can only do it if you're signed really early or you come from a wealthy family.
I loved all that riot-grrl scene and Nation of Ulysses and Bikini Kill and Huggy Bear. I loved it. It was the moment sort of first growing up where bands had stopped looking like roadies.
Sometimes not playing music for a day is much more beneficial than playing every day for ten hours.
I feel some allegiance to pushing electric-guitar music into a different realm, somewhere that isn't retrospective. There's a lot of guitar bands that are a tribute to the 1970s or the Nineties. I want to experiment with guitar music more.
I'm a guitar player. I've carved out my own style of guitar music, so I don't look for inspiration with playing guitar.
I love when a song is conceived as a jigsaw puzzle in the studio, and then it's a natural to play live. That's my gauge of success for a song.
When I like something, I wear it into the ground, then really regret it.
I'm probably quite practical when I'm on stage. I start off with a leather jacket, and then get too hot and take it off. I don't think too much about it.
Generally, my life is absolute chaos, but when I'm writing songs, it's very thought out and regimented.
I panic when we're on tour and feel the world can leave you behind. When we finish touring, I feel like I'm running to catch up and find out what's been happening.
I don't feel like the album format is sacred anymore, and things have got to change. I don't listen to music in terms of albums anymore. I've got a short attention span.
One of the things I discovered about myself is I'm just really positive.
I saw a picture of a girl using an eyelash curler when I was a kid, and I thought it was some sort of torture device, the eye guillotine.
Photography is a big part of my life: taking photographs, being around photographers.
I've got no problem being on my own. I like the way my imagination works.
I start the day off with a pot of coffee, and I read all the newspapers online, then I delve around for new music.
