Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.
Cause they kinda wanted me to be a boy, but I didn't want to wear any mens clothes.
Dresses, I find, are impractical in social situations, but I enjoy wearing them a great deal on stage.
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 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 get given loads of rubbish. So, I have two Alanis Morissette records which I hide when anyone with taste calls around.
I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect.
I like the fact that people either think I'm incredibly gorgeous or flippin ugly.
I love being a freak. It's great!
I refuse to be held responsible for bringing back a wave of pasty-faced people into the world.
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.
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.
If Placebo was a drug, they would no doubt be pure heroin - dangerous, mysterious and totally addictive.
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.
In photographs, you'll see that my beauty spot moves around my face quite a bit, depending on where the largest zit is.
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.
Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.
Schizophrenic is the best word - I change from day to day. I can be quite confusing. Indecisive, workaholic, and tired today.
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.
The more you'll dress up the more fun you'll have.
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.
They're getting used to it. I think fear is slowly turning into pride: I think they were quite perturbed in the beginning, but they're coming round to it. I was always a bit of a loose cannon, then again I was always the artistic one: bit of a social misfit. I probably still am.
To write beautiful music and communicate real emotion, and to play strong and exciting gigs. That is now our drug.
We live in a strange bubble.
In the movie Velvet Goldmine, Brian was in a band called Flaming Creatures.
He studied acting in London before he launched his musical career.
The song 'Commercial For Levi' is named after a Placebo band crew member who saved Brian’s life.
Brian: The more personal you make something, the more universal it becomes, because essentially we're all made up of the same emotional stuff.
Brian: They kinda wanted me to be a boy, but I didn't want to wear any men's clothes. (On his parents)
Brian: I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect.
Brian: I think that most people expect us to be lying in the gutter with needles hanging out of our arms, quoting Oscar Wilde to the stars. But that hasn't happened in years.
Brian: They’re getting used to it. I think fear is slowly turning into pride: I think they were quite perturbed in the beginning, but they’re coming round to it. I was always a bit of a loose cannon, then again I was always the artistic one: bit of a social misfit. I probably still am. (On what his parents think of Placebo.)
Brian: To write beautiful music and communicate real emotion, and to play strong and exciting gigs. That is now our drug. (On developing as a band)
Brian: 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. (On self-respect)
Brian: 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. (On desire)
Brian: I'm continually surprised by the amount of people I wind up. For many guys, I'm the faggot their girlfriend fancies.
Brian: My sexuality is very fluid but it's very real. I have had confusing and contradicting emotions since I have awakened sexually, and it's something that I have come to terms with and that I have manage to live with in a very positive way. I have never been a homophobic person and one of the reasons I stopped going to church, because my mother used to take me to church a lot, was because of the church's attitude to homosexuality.
Brian On Joke of the Year: I'm really bad with jokes. I would have to say Limp Bizkit.
Brian: There's a difference between 'glamour' and 'glam rock'. Glam rock, to me, is a bunch of straight, hairy, football-liking lager lads dressed up in mother's castoffs. And glamour is a certain sophistication, a certain other-worldliness, a certain unattainableness, which I think we certainly calculate. We believe that a band should be slightly larger than life-you should be transported to an alternate reality. I'm giving you some really good answers here, I'm very proud of myself. (On glamour)
Brian: I was given a photograph of this girl with a black eye with ‘Kill/Fuck/Die’ written on it, which I carry with me everywhere, because it’s the most intense thing I’ve been given. (On the strangest gift given to him by a fan)
Brian: I like the fact that people either think I’m incredibly gorgeous or fucking ugly.
Brian: I think what you have to realize is that our generation is the first generation since its sexual awakening has come into the world, and realized 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 sanitized, so there's a lot more mental games being played. (On the sexual revolution)
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