Brian Molko Quotes

I'm a weirdo magnet, but I'm handling it better than I used to.

- 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

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

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.

- 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'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

Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.

- 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

I've always found music that is carnal very attractive but not in the most obvious way.

- Brian Molko

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

- Brian Molko

I used to fly off the handle in everyday life, but I'm a little calmer now.

- Brian Molko

A lot of what has pushed me forward is desire, and I have expressed that in my songwriting - perhaps because it's safer!

- Brian Molko

Dresses, I find, are impractical in social situations, but I enjoy wearing them a great deal on stage.

- Brian Molko

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.

- 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

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

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

Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.

- Brian Molko

I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect.

- Brian Molko

I refuse to be held responsible for bringing back a wave of pasty-faced people into the world.

- Brian Molko

I love being a freak. It's great!

- Brian Molko

We live in a strange bubble.

- Brian Molko