Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.
The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.
My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed.
The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag.
The rhino is now more or less extinct, and it's not because of global warming or shrinking habitats. It's because of Beyonce's handbags.
I'm not an anarchist, but I believe that people don't want the royal family - the so-called royal family.
We're all lonely, but I'd rather be lonely by myself than with a long list of duties and obligations. I think that's why people kill themselves, really.
Once somebody is known, it seems as though anybody anywhere can say anything about them. Whereas if I simply stopped someone in the street and criticised their clothes, their work, their parents, their inner being, I'd be sued and I'd be thrown in prison.
That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.
I think I'd be a prime candidate for canonisation.
England is a memory now. The gates are flooded and anybody can have access to England and join in.
Artists aren't really people. I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.
If you love animals, obviously it doesn't make sense to hurt them.
I don't even know if I exist offstage.
As a very small child I found recorded noise and the solitary singer beneath the spotlight so dramatic and so brave... walking the plank... willingly... It was sink or swim. The very notion of standing there, alone, I found beautiful.
I hated the royal wedding.
I'm capable of looking on the bright side. I just don't do it very often.
My talents do not lie in DIY.
I find that it isn't wise to attempt to judge people on their public persona, and even on the music they make. Because I've met so many people whose music I cannot stand, and they're very nice. At the same time, I've met people whose music I've loved, and they're not the person you've invested all this emotion in.
You can't help but feel that the Chinese are a subspecies.
