Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.

There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.

I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.

Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.

I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.

It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.

Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!

Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.

Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.

The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain.

Take care not to welcome today the terrors that will make yesterday's demons look like angels.

Let's start with what we can be thankful for & get our mind into that vibration and then watch the good that starts to come because one thought leads to another

Go into the auto mechanic, youve got to know computers to be able to work on the cars.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one.

As if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. Since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely.

The Council of the Royal Society is a collection of men who elect each other to office and then dine together at the expense of this society to praise each other over wine and give each other medals.

The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything.

I think people have been really receptive to understanding that I've grown up and the music's going to sound a little different.

The good news is that the bad news can be turned into good news when you change your attitude.