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I think, in music, you're always hoping that you'll have a like-minded audience and that the music you like making will appeal to them, too.

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.

I think for us up-and-coming artists, once you're out there, once you've put stuff up, once people know who you are, once you discover who you are, we're all in the same boat: it's down to whether people appreciate the music or not.

The most successful stuff is sold to you as indispensable social information. The message in the music is, 'We are terribly, terribly slick and suave, and if you listen to us, you can probably get a leg up in society, too.'

I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.

I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.

When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.

Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.

I've created several musical trends, really. That's not because I'm so far out and fabulous. It's because most bands have no ideas of their own. They're so desperate they'll grab at any old straw.