To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.
Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage.
I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small.
I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job.
You don't really know a song until you play it live.
My earliest memories are sitting on the beach at Blackpool, and I know that if I went back, it would be horrible. I know what Blackpool's like - it's nothing like I imagined it was as a child.
I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.
Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.
The Palestinians are a miserable people. . . and they deserve to be.
My point is you can fight racism and sexism and homophobia more effectively if you're doing it from the position that you're standing for the dignity of all people, and that you're actually standing for the underdog in the red states and the blue states. I think it's more effective when you're anti-racism and anti-sexism and anti-homophobia and that is the centerpiece for a project to uplift all humanity, and frankly to defend and uplift the children of all species.
The band's filter, but playing live is a lot of fun.