I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.

I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.

People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.

Creative people are more prone to depression.

My first album was completed in three months.