I'm not David Bowie. Who are we kidding? At the end of the day, I'm the same person I've always been. I'm Don Garvey's son from up the road.

Just start scribbling. The first draft is never your last draft. Nothing you write is by accident.

I usually tell somebody if a song’s for them. I don’t always tell them if it’s about them.

As long as people are listening that's all that matters.

Maybe Radiohead and R.E.M. Even a group like the National - artists who have crossed over without compromising. It's a special thing.

We [Elbow] have had some luck with media syncs in film and on TV. We'd love to do a soundtrack with a really cool director.

The British press isn't as vicious as it used to be, and these days it's sort of cool to care again. Everyone loves an everyman anthem.

"Open Arms" has a lot of unison singing in it. And it works: Grown men will come to our gigs and cry during that one.

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day

Nothing from the ocean is meant to survive on land forever.

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

I'm a big horror fan. I'm a genre fan. I like to make these movies. They're my favorite kinds of movies to make.

There has been treatment for hepatitis C, but the treatment has not been overwhelmingly effective, number 1. And number 2, it has had considerable toxicity.

HIV is not a death sentence. It doesn't mean life's over. It means that life's going to be different, but you still get to have those moments that people who don't have HIV experience.

The base of our party is commonsense conservatives.If the Republican Party gets back to that base, I think our party's going to be stronger and there's not going to be a need for a third party.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands.