Avril Lavigne sold a massive amount of albums and she has to top that with her next release. We have four great albums behind us, and it's not going to be as hard to live up to that.

Japan is quite weird because they wait for you to say something before they respond. You can literally hear a pin drop, they don't make a sound until you say something to the crowd.

The story behind every song is individual to itself.

I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my hotel room, on the road, in the plane.

I'm not a betting man.

Like all bands, the first two albums are always the ones most written about, and the most covered. When a band gets to their third of fourth album, the story of the band has already been told.

The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young to U2.

We didn't really want to be an overnight success as that brings with it its own problems.

Big shows are more like events and small shows are more like traditional gigs.

Revising a screenplay is much more frustrating than revising a song because you have to read through the entire work again while you are changing stuff. It is a lot easier to edit a song.

It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music.

He who laughs last ... just didn't get the joke.

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas

My husband Chris, the thing he likes most about me is that I'm very positive and easily very happy.

Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed, and the fragments that survive can always laugh at the dead.

You look like Curran. You have that pissy exasperated look on your face.

There are people I'll always love to listen to, and I'm always ending up discovering new songs by them, which is crazy. Like Stevie Wonder.

But literature, I discovered, can also save you. Truly. Over the cliché and through the truth, it can save.

The Beat thing happened when I was younger. I used to run away from home, inspired by the Beats, like in '64 and '65.

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

That's a very important thing in life, to be really looked upon for the qualities which you hold in yourself and not all of superficiality.