I kind of have a Victorian sensibility - I don't understand stuff until I can classify it and name it.
When Blur first started and we were playing Manchester the Hacienda was the place to go. That was where a lot of exciting stuff was happening and London was pretty dead.
I have a huge costume section in my closet - wigs, mustaches, the whole thing. Halloween's my favorite holiday, so I have a lot of weird stuff.
I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that - stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy with the Pretenders.
I'm not really gonna stop. We've got so much stuff to do, so many songs we talked about, so many things to record.
I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.
I don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that.
The Australian accent is sort of like going down a step in smartness, you could say, because you guys pronounce things as they're spelled. We add and abbreviate stuff.
To write lyrics and sing stuff used to be a real chore for me, especially before this 'Diamond Eyes' record. I was spending years making records.
There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for comedy's sake - it's informed by something else. I like stuff like that.
I built two forges when I was in my teens. I was just really, really into metalworking and making stuff.
I am human, when people write bad stuff about me it bothers me, but I know that will never end.
I've purged myself of worldly goods; half my stuff is either being sold or going to charity. I need to go shopping.
Some of the most valuable stuff I do has to do with my dissenting from the general opinion about people in movements.
I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view.
Travelling so much, sometimes my luggage goes astray. But I can get the right stuff sent to me overnight by a special shipper. No big deal.
I do some solo, acoustic stuff, but I also like plugging in my electric guitar and playing loud with a band.
I always wanted to be a Muppet. So when 'Sesame Street' approached me to guest star, I thought: 'I'm going to be on this!' It's pretty incredible stuff.
When I want to put out an album, I want to write it. I want to be able to say that I wrote my album, and all this stuff is from me.
A lot of people do that kind of nostalgia stuff believing that they were very happy in their teenage years, but that's probably just an illusion.
