Brian Molko
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.Collection: Amazing
Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.Collection: Cool
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.
I'm a weirdo magnet, but I'm handling it better than I used to.
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 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.
Dresses, I find, are impractical in social situations, but I enjoy wearing them a great deal on stage.
I've always found music that is carnal very attractive but not in the most obvious way.
We live in a strange bubble.
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 love being a freak. It's great!
I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect.
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.
I refuse to be held responsible for bringing back a wave of pasty-faced people into the world.
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.
Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.
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.
Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.
I used to fly off the handle in everyday life, but I'm a little calmer now.
I had a great deal of arrogance and a great deal of bravado, but I think the bravado was brought on by a huge insecurity.
The extreme side of my personality, which I chose to sort of display, was snowballing and getting a life of its own. It was like looking in a mirror and not recognising myself.
A lot of what has pushed me forward is desire, and I have expressed that in my songwriting - perhaps because it's safer!
Don't let small minded people dictate how you should look and be free.Collection: People
There is nothing more wonderful in life than seeing life as an adventure. We should all try things that we're afraid of. We should all look very clearly into the unknown and enjoy it. Because when you come in contact with things that you really don't know, that's when you're truly living.Collection: Adventure
I’m not religious but I’m definitely very spiritual person. I’ve always said that religion is for people who are scared of ending up in hell. Spirituality is for those who’ve already been there.Collection: Spiritual
Good conversation turns me on. A connection between two people, a mental one first.Collection: Two
I used to feel more straight for certain months and then just think about boys all the time I'm attracted to women who are very, very boyish. I'm not very big on big mammaries. I have a tendency to be attracted to very, very boyish girls. And usually very feminine men.Collection: Girl
I want to be a better person. I want to be a stronger person. I want to be someone who hurts less.Collection: Hurt
I am very lustful. I am in this fortunate or unfortunate position being bisexual in that I have twice as many people to lust over. So i can get hard on tour. I dont think lust is a sin - People should have sex as much and in as many situations as possible. Then theyd be less uptight.Collection: Sex
When people hear the word “beautiful”, they expect something to be pretty. And for me that's not always necessarily the case, y'know.Collection: Beautiful
If Placebo was a drug, they would no doubt be pure heroin - dangerous, mysterious and totally addictive.Collection: Drug
You would not like me if you knew me.Collection: Like Me
The more personal you make something, the more universal it becomes, because essentially we're all made up of the same emotional stuff.Collection: Emotional
I believe people are still wonderful in hating. They hate what they don't understand, they hate each other. No matter what anyone says, this world is still not a bit more tolerante than it was before.Collection: Hate
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.Collection: Grateful
Everybody is trying to be so trendy. I think not being trendy should be the next trend.Collection: Thinking
You lose so many material possessions being on the road. You can't get too attached to stuff and you have to remember that people must never become possessions. People are spheres intersecting. You have to make sure that one sphere doesn't ever take over the other. Individuality is absolutely the most important thingCollection: People
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.Collection: Eye
As musicians it's often difficult. You go to a dinner party and most people treat you like some kind of exotic animal and in a way like you don't have any problems and that it's all fantastic and glamorous and that you wake up in the morning, you kick the groupies out of bed, you roll onto the floor onto a needle, right, which fills you with a lovely substance, you roll into the gutter and you stare at the moon and out comes beautiful poetry. The fact of the matter is that that's nonsense. It's a lot of hard work.Collection: Beautiful
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!Collection: Fool
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.Collection: Sex
I don't seem to meet very many men I find attractive. And usually when I meet them and develop crushes on them they are usually straight. So I end up having more relationships with women.Collection: Crush
I get given loads of rubbish. So, I have two Alanis Morissette records which I hide when anyone with taste calls around.Collection: Two
Well, the real sex organ is between the ears, not between the legsCollection: Sex
If I was a girl I'd still swing both ways anyway.Collection: Girl
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.Collection: Hangover
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.Collection: Artistic
I like the fact that people either think I'm incredibly gorgeous or flippin ugly.Collection: Thinking