To write beautiful music and communicate real emotion, and to play strong and exciting gigs. That is now our drug.

Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.

I've always found music that is carnal very attractive but not in the most obvious way.

I'm tired of being around men all the time. I'm going to start a band called Skirt with three girls and I'll play the guitar and sing backing vocals in drag. I went window shopping when I was in New York, saw a lot of amazing dresses.

Great music is like a query language for a database of emotions.

My mouth has a tendency to get me into trouble, but because I'm so small and I take on people who are lager than me. If someone punched me, I'd get my drummer beat them up.