For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.

I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.

If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.

I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.

I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess.

I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think.

I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.

The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.

Being real is what is important.

I am really addicted to music.

When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it's a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.

There is a lot of willful incompetence in the wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation industry that is in the process of coming to light.

It's okay to write crap. Just don't try publishing it while it's still crap.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Write to register history, and name each thing. Write what should not be forgotten.

So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.

A chord is just the name of a sound.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Our thoughts create our reality - where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.