I love my bandmates, and they're my friends, and even though we had fun and got to tour and I got to play the DRUMS a lot, which I'll ALWAYS appreciate, we had a REALLY ROUGH time. We toured and tried to get people to come to our shows and PUT out records, and we really struggled.

People are always surprised when they MEET me. I was in NIGERIA and I went to one of the radio stations and they were LIKE, 'Aww you look CUTE!' They were expecting me to look more rough, and I was like: 'Yeah, I'm POLITE!'

I'm not actually POSH; I'm REALLY rough and from the wrong SIDE of the TRACKS. I GREW up in Putney, which is pretty rough.

I don't LIKE to PLAY ROUGH, but I will if I have to.

I THINK probably my MAIN advice to new ARTISTS is if you want to be in the music business, you NEED to be dang serious about it because it's a rough business.

Politics isn't a reality show or a gong show. It's not show BUSINESS for ugly people. It's the arena where we define our COMMON LIFE in a rough and READY contest that has winners and LOSERS.

The WAY of the pioneer is ALWAYS ROUGH.