“I’ve been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that’s the case, I should’ve come here in a space rocket.”

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.

I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn’t talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.

Cause people lose it, they lose it – they say: ‘I like that, and that’s not this.’

Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It’s a product of stress and in my case over-work.

I’m a punk rocker. I don’t do Christian.

There is always room at the top, don’t let them tell you there is not.

I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I’ve got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide

I’ve never really been nervous about any concerts. I enjoy it so much.

The brain isn’t like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.

Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I’ve always played live.

I think what’s going on with gorillas is pretty bad. The fact is that you can buy gorilla meat in London any day you want it.

Depression is something that doesn’t just go away. It’s just… there and you deal with it. It’s like… malaria or something.

I wanted to make an album that melodically people can connect to; something that reflects our times and the kinds of difficulties we face.

I’m not the ‘rappity-rapper’ type dude. All my music is really true. I can’t just rap about nothing, just metaphors and putting words together. I can’t just smash out material like other guys. I just want my albums to be crazy every time I drop one.

I realized at a young age that sequence in an album is almost as important as the songs that are on the album.

I just really want to make albums – and however I can, I will.

All my albums always go with the times.

To me the most important thing is getting into a studio and making an album that is 12 or 14 amazing songs, getting up onstage, and making people happy by livening the rock.

I think thats what most of us rappers do too often. We put too much information in some of our albums that could actually be on the next ones.

One thing I’m big on is believing in giving an album time. I’ll say you’ll have to give an album three years before you can call it a classic. If you can’t listen to it three years later then it’s not really a classic.