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.

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.

As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.

There is only one thing worse than a little baby who won't stop crying: it is a big baby who won't stop whining about it

When you are without friends, the next best thing is an enemy who knows you well.

Learn to ... be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.

When you're a first-round pick and you get to the big leagues at 22, there's almost a sense that you've got to mature.

It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.

I think, especially in this time in the world, there is very much a choice between fear and courage, and we all have to pick the courageous route.

Human science is an uncertain guess.

You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.