It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity.

There's nothing like privacy. You know, I like people. It's nice that they might like my books and all that...but I'm not the book, see? I'm the guy who wrote it, but I don't want them to come up and throw roses on me or anything. I want them to let me breathe.

We'd have to suck away at oxygen canisters between songs just so that we could keep playing.

You know sometimes I just want to curl up on stage and lie there for a while - it's weird.

The privacy of public office, the publicity of private life

But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives.