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I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

Kids just want to have one song. They don't care about a body of work; they don't even care about a whole album - they just want whatever's hot right now. They download that song, and that's it.

There's a guy at the record company who's 30, and he says, I would not listen to these songs except in this context. Somehow the recording process, the arrangements, make it more accessible.

Each member does whatever they want with the song and it totally changes it from whatever idea I hear around it. It turns it into a Sonic Youth song and completely away from it being a solo song.

Bands like Little Mix do represent youth culture because loads of 16 year old girls listen to them.

I've always gravitated towards those ultimate lines in songs, the line you grab on to. That line in 'Smells Like Teen Spirit,' 'Here we are now/Entertain us' - the irony, the antagonism; that's always stuck with me.

This music isn't Top 40, we really stand out from anyone.

My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically about being in your 30s.