It's not people in bands, is it? Why do people who take drugs, why are they in bands? 'Cos they're trying to prove themselves. To make themselves blank and numb and not able to communicate with other people.

I think I only needed something to hold on to. It has never been about depravity. It's always been about melody. But melody and I met in many depraved situatio…

If I want drugs, I don't have to do a gig to get them. I do a gig when I feel shit, because I need to be playing. There's no drug in the world that can compare…

I've got a fierce passion for politics but I can't stand the smarmy, hypocritical upper-middle-class dictator nation that prevails and has always prevailed in …

That's right, but I'm not sure it's my place to talk about drugs. I'd rather take them or not take them - but not talk about them.

I was so, so lost and unhappy. If you listen to the songs on the first album, you can hear it. They're really sad songs and they come from a lonely place. The …

Interviewer: This band has always been able to communicate with its fanbase, I mean, you've always been huge within what it is the spectators do as well.