You Would Not Like Me If You

A Lot Of What Has Pushed Me Forward Is Desire, And I Have Expressed That In My Songwriting - Perhaps Because It's Safer!

I Used To Fly Off The Handle In Everyday Life, But I'm A Little Calmer Now.

As Musicians It's Often Difficult. You Go To A Dinner Party And Most People Treat You Like Some Kind Of Exotic Animal And In A Way Like You Don't Have Any Problems And That It's All Fantastic And Glamorous And That You Wake Up In The Morning, You Kick The Groupies Out Of Bed, You Roll Onto The Floor Onto A Needle, Right, Which Fills You With A Lovely Substance, You Roll Into The Gutter And You Stare At The Moon And Out Comes Beautiful Poetry. The Fact Of The Matter Is That That's Nonsense. It's A Lot Of Hard Work.

Placebo Is Music For Outsiders, By Outsiders And Our Gigs Are Like Conventions Of Outcasts, Which Is Cool.

The More Personal You Make Something, The More Universal It Becomes, Because Essentially We're All Made Up Of The Same Emotional Stuff.