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" You have a physical human reaction to something that another human being made. When you remove the human from it, and you chop it up, make it all perfect, you have a different reaction. Something is not there. You can feel it when it's there. "

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" Every day, it's a different country, different time zone. If you asked me where home was, I've never felt like I've had that. My idea of comfort is to leave a place. Two weeks is sort of my max. "

" I used to go to a lot of Pam Hogg shows. The thing about London Fashion Week is that, generally, we're on tour and traveling around, so it's very rare that I actually catch it. I like to go to Burberry because I know a few girls who work there. I kind of follow friends. "

" I write music visually. "

" I have so many ideas while I'm driving. "

" If I acted like I did onstage in normal life, everyone would probably hate me. "

" I do always want to be creating something; I can't help it. I don't know why that is, but I'm certainly not gonna knock it now, at the age of 36. It seems to be working. "

" I get along great with my family. My parents are really proud of me and my brother, who's a chef here in New York. I don't see my parents often, but they're very supportive, especially as I get older. "

" I love Tokyo, I've been several times. The first trip was just weird; it was a weird time. It was in the '90s, and it was different then. "

" I hate sunshine so much. I can only cope with it when it's bitterly, bitterly cold. "

" Lollapalooza, that was one of my worst shows. We just played at, like, 3 in the afternoon; it was like the hottest, most miserable thing. My shoes were melting. I just thought I was going to die. It was the most horrible experience. I lasted, what, four songs? In front of quite a lot of people. That was one of my least favorites. "

" The crazy colors tend to wash out so quick. Basically, it ensures that you never wash your hair, so it starts to do some cool stuff. "

" Painting is almost like a sport. It's like this action thing. When I do it, I'm really not thinking. The paintings are like a diary that I might not want to read again. "

" Over the years, my art box has gotten bigger and bigger. "

" When you do music, your friends are writers, actors, painters. It's all under the same roof. So anything creative is interesting to me. "

" When you're recording in the midst of touring, you get a different sense about you. Things are more rocking, darker, heavier and louder. You're thinking about the audience that you're seeing every night. "

" Being on the road, I think, is the most organised part of my life. You know where you have to be every day; you know what your job is every day. I crave that tiny bit of stability, which anyone else would think is the most unstable way of living, ever. "

" In the studio, you can always stop, rewind and do it again, but on stage, you can never do that - it's a different energy. It separates good bands from bad bands, being able to play, perform and really capture an audience. I think that's the hardest part. "

" When I was really young, my mum used to make my clothes - I hated that. I liked the way boys dressed - I still do. I wanted to wear what they wore. "

" Record covers still inspire me in terms of clothes, some bands just look sharp. But I still wear stuff I owned when I was 16. "

" I actually got into music because of art and because of skateboarding: All those graphics and punk bands and fanzines - they were glued together in my brain. "