Quotes by Brian Molko

Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.
– Brian Molko
Cause they kinda wanted me to be a boy, but I didn't want to wear any mens clothes.
– Brian Molko
Dresses, I find, are impractical in social situations, but I enjoy wearing them a great deal on stage.
– Brian Molko
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.
– Brian Molko
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.
– Brian Molko
I get given loads of rubbish. So, I have two Alanis Morissette records which I hide when anyone with taste calls around.
– Brian Molko
I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect.
– Brian Molko
I like the fact that people either think I'm incredibly gorgeous or flippin ugly.
– Brian Molko
I love being a freak. It's great!
– Brian Molko
I refuse to be held responsible for bringing back a wave of pasty-faced people into the world.
– Brian Molko
I was a very frustrated, lonely and anti-social young man. I felt very alienated and very bored as well.
– Brian Molko
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.
– 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.
– Brian Molko
I'm very lustful. I'm in this fortunate, or unfortunate, position being bisexual in that I have twice as many people to lust over. So it can get hard on tour. I don't think lust is a sin - people should have sex as much and in as many situations as possible. Then they'd be less uptight.
– Brian Molko
If Placebo was a drug, they would no doubt be pure heroin - dangerous, mysterious and totally addictive.
– Brian Molko
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.
– Brian Molko
In photographs, you'll see that my beauty spot moves around my face quite a bit, depending on where the largest zit is.
– Brian Molko
Most of these are love songs where I'm trying to come to grips with relationships. They're frequently told from the point of view of ex-lovers, so at first it may seem like I'm being arrogant, but actually I'm eating humble pie. I'm cutting open a vein and letting it bleed for you.
– Brian Molko
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.
– Brian Molko
Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.
– Brian Molko
Schizophrenic is the best word - I change from day to day. I can be quite confusing. Indecisive, workaholic, and tired today.
– Brian Molko
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.
– Brian Molko
The more you'll dress up the more fun you'll have.
– Brian Molko
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.
– Brian Molko
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.
– Brian Molko
To write beautiful music and communicate real emotion, and to play strong and exciting gigs. That is now our drug.
– Brian Molko
We live in a strange bubble.
– Brian Molko
We're just trying to find meaning within all the madness. And if you find yourself saying 'you know, if I met myself last night, I would've thought I was an asshole,' that's one hell of a severe warning sign that you've gone too far with the madness.
– Brian Molko
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.
– Brian Molko
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 thing.
– Brian Molko