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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.
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I think what you have to realise is that our generation is the first generation since its sexual awakening has come into the world and realised 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 sanitised, so there's a lot more mental games being played.
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The more personal you make something, the more universal it becomes, because essentially we're all made up of the same emotional stuff.
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I like the fact that people either think I'm incredibly gorgeous or flippin ugly.
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I'd like to be more of a bad influence than a role model. I'm getting lots of boys to wear eye-liner again which is good.
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It says in the Bible that if you argue with a fool, you become one. That’s why I don’t talk to Fred Durst!
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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.
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Music has touched me deeply, sometimes to tears. But at the same time it's been life-affirming, because I've been grateful for the fact that I'm alive and human and capable of being so moved.
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When every day became a hangover and when you look at yourself in the mirror and go 'I don't like how you're coming across to people.' and when every day just started to feel the same. After the 50th shag, it doesn't mean so much anymore.
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I want to be a better person. I want to be a stronger person. I want to be someone who hurts less.