I think it's ridiculous that we even have to talk about gay rights as rights. . . It's gonna be as shocking as the treatment of slaves someday.
I've always found music that is carnal very attractive but not in the most obvious way.
Well, the real sex organ is between the ears, not between the legs
The more personal you make something, the more universal it becomes, because essentially we're all made up of the same emotional stuff.
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.
Interviewer: [What do you get up to] In real time? Brian Molko: I go on Placebo sites and have a terrible time trying to convince fans it's actually me. No one ever believes it. I've spent about four hours, giving away intimate details about myself that I'd never tell a journalist, in an effort to prove that it's me.
We live in a strange bubble.
We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
The poet's business is not to save the soul of man but to make it worth saving.
The artist constructs a new symbol with his brush. This symbol is not a recognizable form of anything which is already finished, already made, already existing in the world - it is a symbol of a new world, which is being built upon and which exists by way of people.
To fashion an inner story of our pain carries us into the heart of it, which is where rebirth inevitably occurs.