BRIAN MOLKO

The extreme side of my personality, which I chose to sort of display, was snowballing and getting a life of its own. It was like looking in a mirror and not recognising myself.

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

A lot of what has pushed me forward is desire, and I have expressed that in my songwriting - perhaps because it's safer!

Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.

I used to fly off the handle in everyday life, but I'm a little calmer now.

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.

My mouth has a tendency to get me into trouble, but because I'm so small and I take on people who are lager than me. If someone punched me, I'd get my drummer beat them up.

The more you'll dress up the more fun you'll have.

Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.

I had a great deal of arrogance and a great deal of bravado, but I think the bravado was brought on by a huge insecurity.

Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.

We live in a strange bubble.

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 refuse to be held responsible for bringing back a wave of pasty-faced people into the world.

I'm a weirdo magnet, but I'm handling it better than I used to.

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.

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

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.

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

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'm tired of being around men all the time. I'm going to start a band called Skirt with three girls and I'll play the guitar and sing backing vocals in drag. I went window shopping when I was in New York, saw a lot of amazing dresses.

I love being a freak. It's great!

I've always found music that is carnal very attractive but not in the most obvious way.

If I was a girl I'd still swing both ways anyway.

If Placebo was a drug, they would no doubt be pure heroin - dangerous, mysterious and totally addictive.