Don't let small minded people dictate how you should look and be free.
There is nothing more wonderful in life than seeing life as an adventure. We should all try things that we're afraid of. We should all look very clearly into the unknown and enjoy it. Because when you come in contact with things that you really don't know, that's when you're truly living.
Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.
I’m not religious but I’m definitely very spiritual person. I’ve always said that religion is for people who are scared of ending up in hell. Spirituality is for those who’ve already been there.
Good conversation turns me on. A connection between two people, a mental one first.
I used to feel more straight for certain months and then just think about boys all the time I'm attracted to women who are very, very boyish. I'm not very big on big mammaries. I have a tendency to be attracted to very, very boyish girls. And usually very feminine men.
I want to be a better person. I want to be a stronger person. I want to be someone who hurts less.
I am very lustful. I am in this fortunate or unfortunate position being bisexual in that I have twice as many people to lust over. So i can get hard on tour. I dont think lust is a sin - People should have sex as much and in as many situations as possible. Then theyd be less uptight.
When people hear the word “beautiful”, they expect something to be pretty. And for me that's not always necessarily the case, y'know.
If Placebo was a drug, they would no doubt be pure heroin - dangerous, mysterious and totally addictive.
You would not like me if you knew me.
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.
I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect.
The more personal you make something, the more universal it becomes, because essentially we're all made up of the same emotional stuff.
I believe people are still wonderful in hating. They hate what they don't understand, they hate each other. No matter what anyone says, this world is still not a bit more tolerante than it was before.
Music has touched me deeply, sometimes to tears. But at the same time it's been life-affirming, because I've been grateful for the fact that I'm alive and human and capable of being so moved.
Everybody is trying to be so trendy. I think not being trendy should be the next trend.
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
There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.
I don't seem to meet very many men I find attractive. And usually when I meet them and develop crushes on them they are usually straight. So I end up having more relationships with women.
As musicians it's often difficult. You go to a dinner party and most people treat you like some kind of exotic animal and in a way like you don't have any problems and that it's all fantastic and glamorous and that you wake up in the morning, you kick the groupies out of bed, you roll onto the floor onto a needle, right, which fills you with a lovely substance, you roll into the gutter and you stare at the moon and out comes beautiful poetry. The fact of the matter is that that's nonsense. It's a lot of hard work.
I'd like to be more of a bad influence than a role model. I'm getting lots of boys to wear eye-liner again which is good.
It says in the Bible that if you argue with a fool, you become one. That’s why I don’t talk to Fred Durst!
I think what you have to realise is that our generation is the first generation since its sexual awakening has come into the world and realised 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 sanitised, so there's a lot more mental games being played.
I'm a weirdo magnet, but I'm handling it better than I used to.
