“I loved being in a band.”

I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.

I always like to tell a story.

To me, style is consistency.

Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It’s the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.

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.

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

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

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

Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

I want to do a make-up line for men.

I watched Picasso visit the Planet of the Apes, as the masters rot on walls and the angels eat the grapes.

People tend to keep their distance.

I like being infamous. I think it is safe being a cult.

I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman’s face.

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

If you make a mistake, you should enjoy it.

We started with Denny Cordell, and he was a great record producer. He knew exactly how to take a band that knew absolutely nothing, and guide you without trying to tell you what to do.

I remember Glenn Miller coming to me once, before he had his own band, saying, How do you do it? How do you get started? It’s so difficult. I told him, I don’t know but whatever you do don’t stop. Just keep on going.

There is a constant battle between Cogsy and I as who’s the biggest psycho in the band

I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played in a punk band. Thats it.

Even when I interviewed bands, it was about asking them about writing songs, so it was more for me than anybody else.

EVERY SINGLE DANCER, SINGER and BAND MEMBER is a BRILLIANT SOLO ARTIST

My band is the best band in the world, period. So, I insist on every song being better than it is on the record. So by the end of the tour, we have to be playing the song better than how it’s recorded.

We had cut ourselves free from the security of day-job life. The goals became primarily financial, at least for a while. That was the roughest time we had ever had as a band, because that was the first moment we realized that this was for real.