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.

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.

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

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.

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.

(N)ot writing was hard work, almost as hard as writing.

In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.

Given the lethal enormity of sin and the inestimable value of a single soul, a baby in a manger and a man on a cross makes more sense that anything else I will ever be able to possibly imagine.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Nothing is wrong if it makes you happy.

Even as the unborn babe is in the womb of his mother, these five are fixed as his life destiny: his life span, his activities, his acquisition of wealth and knowledge, and his time of death.

I'm hoping for a return to at least partial sanity someday, but I'm not optimistic.

But it's mostly about pacing yourself when you do these movies.

I'm a big advocate of being around the things that you want to do eventually, and being around people who are doing them.

In a time of crisis we all have the potential to morph up to a new level and do things we never thought possible.