People are so busy anyway they don't see you or recognise you in the street.

I love watching people, and that's what I do; just go for a walk at about 4 o'clock, and go down a busy street, where you see people coming out of school and you get a glimpse of their lives, what they're talking about.

Years go by and people are together, but there was an individual there for 26 years, or whatever, who was absolutely fine, coping without you.

You can't live in your own secluded world. If you're not on the Tube, on the bus doing normal things, how can you relate to people?

I love escaping into character. It's a chance to try on people that you wouldn't be brave or stupid enough to be in real life.

Musicians are probably the most uncomfortable people in themselves in the world. Happiness, I think, only exists when you're a child and once you go past 11, unfortunately it's gone.