Fashion goes round in circles.
I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really.
Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.
It's refreshing to hear something that's pop but doesn't sound like Britney Spears.
If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.
This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.
I've always craved to belong to somewhere, but I never have and never will.
I'm a crap guitarist and I find it really hard writing on my own.
I absolutely hate Take That, East 17, the Spice Girls.
Depression scares people off. It makes me laugh that it has that kind of effect.
I consider the Stooges to be pop music.
The ultimate revenge is being on Top Of The Pops.
It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.
I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13.
Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.
When do you know you're insane? And when do you known you're sane? I think I treat a fine line between the two. It's a battle to function, but somehow I manage.
I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn't matter if you can't play a note, it's how you communicate.
I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music. It's my fascination, my ongoing passion.
I really, really love music. I'm affected by it and uplifted by it, and made to laugh and cry, and almost fall in love with the person who has made me feel so brilliant and communicated so profoundly to me.
If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you.
