Quotes

People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.

Creative people are more prone to depression.

Prison's a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.

It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar or a pen for seven years.

I always like to tell a story.

I'm a punk rocker. I don't do Christian.

Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.

I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here in a space rocket.

When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.

When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.

Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.

I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.

I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.

If you make a mistake, you should enjoy it.

Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.

To confront those fears, in a controlled environment, where there's 300 people around you going through the same thing, it's this weird sort of yin and yang.

People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think.

The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern no matter what kind of movie you're dealing with.

I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody.

I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble.

What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film.

I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to 'ER' were maddening and there was this assumption that the two of us were looking at each other with rage and resentment, which was also not the case.

I'm always honored, but I think for every 100 of those that come along, one of them is actually going to happen. And, the fact that this was an offer on a major film that had a start date, was pretty impressive.

I want to continue doing as big a variety of things as I can do, and if that means I have the honor of getting to do more feature work, I would love that. I know that if I make any other long-term TV commitments, it's not going to be on a drama.

The place was crawling with youngsters. It was good, because the kids were good. I can't make a general assumption. Again, you're probably getting, as a general theme from me, that I don't make a lot of broad, sweeping rules about movies.