When you're younger, you see the people who are in power and think they must have that position because of some degree of skill. And as you get older, you realize it's not true, that most people in those positions are absolutely inept. And this naturally makes you feel better about yourself.
With the issue of immigration, it's very difficult because, although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England, the more the British identity disappears.
I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event. Has England ever been quite so foul with patriotism? The 'dazzling royals' have, quite naturally, hi-jacked the Olympics for their own empirical needs, and no oppositional voice is allowed in the free press.
Congratulations to Prince Charles for banning foie gras from all his functions.
There has to reach a point where you've said enough.
I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.
Lady Gaga said to me, 'You showed me how it's done.' I have no idea what she meant by 'it.'
The word 'indie' is meaningless now. It's so over-used that people think it simply means green hair.
Killing a stag is like killing a child.
Artists aren't really people. I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.
What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't.
I don't think I'm ever forgiven for anything, which is baffling because I'm not on TV that much.
I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.
I don't even know if I exist offstage.
I do maintain that if your hair is wrong, your entire life is wrong.
The body changes shape and there's nothing you can do about it.
I am slightly shocked to have gone as far as I have.
