I Speak Onstage To Try To Establish

I Do Want To Have That Feeling That People Are Actively Involved In Something, Rather Than Just Consuming Something. I Suppose That's What It Comes Down To, Because It's Such A Dominant Capitalist Society, Everything Becomes A Consumer Product. And I Don't Think That's Really Appropriate To The Creative Arts, Really.

I Don't Think People Should Abuse The Fact That They Are In Showbiz. You Still Have To Be Human. I Think That's The Point. Showbiz Is About Showing Human Things - Just Amplified, That's All. And When It Gets Too Much Into, "hey, We're Part Of The Showbiz Club And We Can Do What We Want," It Turns Me Off And I Hate It.

The Things In My Songs Are The Edited Highlights Of My Life. I Don't Go Seeking Out Strange Sexual Experiences Every Day Of The Week.

The Most Entertaining Songs Don't Always Come From A Nice Place. In Songs Where I Think I'm Being Really Sensitive, They Seem Quite Boring Actually. I've Found That The Songs That Come Out Of Nastier, More Misanthropic Places Are Better.

Hawkwind Are One Of Those Bands That People Introduce You To Because You Don't See Them On The Covers Of Magazines. I'd Heard 'silver Machine' But Russell Senior, Who Was In Pulp, Got Me Into Them. They Had A Song Called 'master Of The Universe' And We Nicked The Title In 1985 For One Of Our Songs.