Lonely_Cry все записи автора "I think what you have to realize is that our generation is the first generation since its sexual awakening has come into the world, and realized that sex can mean, ultimately, death. That has had a very serious effect on social morals and on the way people deal with each other. As we approach the millennium, people are getting more and more confused, and contact is getting more and more sanitized, so there's a lot more mental games being played."
on the sexual revolution

"You lose so many material possessions being on the road. You can't get too attached to stuff. And you have to remember that people must never become possessions. People are spheres intersecting. You have to make sure that one sphere doesn't ever take over the other. Individuality is absolutely the most important thing."
on material things

"I’m very lustful. I’m in this fortunate, or unfortunate, position being bisexual in that I have twice as many people to lust over. So it can get hard on tour. I don't think lust is a sin - people should have sex as much and in as many situations as possible. Then they'd be less uptight."
on lust

"We live in a strange bubble."
on the world

"I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are never black and white, things are very much shades of grey."
on desire

"We’re just trying to find meaning within all the madness. And if you find yourself saying 'you know, if I met myself last night, I would've thought I was an asshole,' that's one hell of a severe warning sign that you've gone too far with the madness."
on madness

"I was a very frustrated, lonely and anti-social young man. I felt very alienated and very bored as well."
on the teenage years

"So, then you find yourself in a situation where you have to do things because they're on offer to you, because you don't have much self-respect left. You just can't say no, even to something that you've never done before. You just can't help yourself."
on self-respect

"I like the fact that people either think I’m incredibly gorgeous or fucking ugly."
"I feel very comfortable with the way I look, and I feel very comfortable with the kind of confusion that it creates in people's minds."
on his appearance

"When every day became a hangover. And when you look at yourself in the mirror and go 'I don't like how you're coming across to people.' and when every day just started to feel the same. After the 50th shag, it doesn't mean so much anymore."
on the rock-star life

"To write beautiful music and communicate real emotion, and to play strong and exciting gigs. That is now our drug."
on developing as a band

"I’d be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from your life and walk hand in hand with Jesus. I would hate for my death to be tragic: I’d like to be old when it happens. But hopefully a young death is unlikely."
on the afterlife

"They’re getting used to it. I think fear is slowly turning into pride: I think they were quite perturbed in the beginning, but they’re coming round to it. I was always a bit of a loose cannon, then again I was always the artistic one: bit of a social misfit. I probably still am."
on what his parents think of Placebo

"Maybe invest in some exotic extravagant and battery operated toys."
on what he would do if he was a woman for a day

"I was given a photograph of this girl with a black eye with ‘Kill/Fuck/Die’ written on it, which I carry with me everywhere, because it’s the most intense thing I’ve been given."
on the strangest gift given to him by a fan

"Most of these are love songs where I'm trying to come to grips with relationships. They're frequently told from the point of view of ex-lovers, so at first it may seem like I'm being arrogant, but actually I'm eating humble pie. I'm cutting open a vein and letting it bleed for you."
on Placebo's second (first with Steve Hewitt as drummer) album Without You I'm Nothing

"It's almost bordering on cliche but Hewitt and Olsdal are my best friends in the world...They are like my two husbands. I've never felt more at home anywhere. I love them more than I have loved any other men on this planet in my life. They are both very beautiful people, as fucked up as I am -- true. Acts of God aside, this is why this band will be here for quite some time."
on the band

"There's a difference between 'glamour' and 'glam rock'. Glam rock, to me, is a bunch of straight, hairy, football-liking lager lads dressed up in mother's castoffs. And glamour is a certain sophistication, a certain other-worldliness, a certain unattainableness, which I think we certainly calculate. We believe that a band should be slightly larger than life-you should be transported to an alternate reality. I'm giving you some really good answers here, I'm very proud of myself."
on glamour

"On who he would play Russian Roulette with: "Eminem for starters. Then Fred Durst, from Limp Bizkit. Let's throw Britney in there. Then Marilyn Manson - just because he's sick enough to enjoy it. And the last one? Tony Blair. He's such a great disappointment - and he plays roulette with other people's lives all the time. It'd be good to see him sweat for a change."
"They can rub me up the wrong way for hours on end, but they won't find anything. Then when I'm on my way out, I'll tell them, 'Next time you want to stick your finger up a boy's ass, just give me a call.'"
on airport security

"I'm really bad with jokes. I would have to say Limp Bizkit."
[/b]on "Joke of the Year"[/b]

"I think that most people expect us to be lying in the gutter with needles hanging out of our arms, quoting Oscar Wilde to the stars. But that hasn't happened in years."
"I just enjoy fucking with people's heads. For the first half of our gigs, there's normally some guy convinced I'm a girl, and a pretty cute one at that. As the gig continues, it begins to dawn on him that I'm a bloke, and suddenly he has to ask himself some serious questions. Ha ha!"
"I had quite a religious upbringing. I gave my life over to Christ at 11. I took it back when I was about 14."
on his childhood

"My sexuality is very fluid but it's very real. I have had confusing and contradicting emotions since I have awakened sexually, and it's something that I have come to terms with and that I have manage to live with in a very positive way. I have never been a homophobic person and one of the reasons I stopped going to church, because my mother used to take me to church a lot, was because of the church's attitude to homosexuality."
on his sexuality

"There's one on my wrist where I put my arm through a window trying to open it; the glass missed Mr Vein by a millimetre. It healed in the shape of a Nike Swoosh. They can't buy advertising like that."
on scars

"I'm continually surprised by the amount of people I wind up. For many guys, I'm the faggot their girlfriend fancies."
"It was quite special, actually. I was 14, she was French, and my first girlfriend. It happened in my room and we lost our virginities together. I convinced my mother that I'd had a nosebleed on the duvet but she said, 'You must have been lying in a strange position.'"
on losing his virginity

"I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect."
on being a star

"Being so honest in my writing is cathartic."
on writing

"Cause they kinda wanted me to be a boy, but I didn't want to wear any mens clothes."
on his parents

"Dresses, I find, are impractical in social situations, but I enjoy wearing them a great deal on stage."
on dresses

"The more personal you make something, the more universal it becomes, because essentially we're all made up of the same emotional stuff."