I think guitarists are really over-admired and over-revered.

I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff.

When people say you're doing something radical in rock or dance music, I'm not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. It's like trying to do something innovative in tap-dancing.

Anything that has more of Graham's guitar playing, I'm bound to like.

Everything I know about pop culture I know from 'The Simpsons,' and they say the Grammys aren't very good.

I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else.

I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things.

Everything I do feels like It's going to end up being in Radiohead.

I'm pampered like you wouldn't believe.

I suppose all of us - we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you're not working, and getting a buzz from feeling like you're really busy. That's the reason to sort of carry on.

But over a period of time It's the melodic things that are in my head all day.

We must stop calling the looting of our national wealth, a share in the national cake.

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.

I puked rainbows all over my childhood, and it felt so good.

No matter how convenient it is for us to reach out to people remotely, sometimes the most important task is to show up in person.

The nature of a coward is to avoid death. If such a man courts peril there can be only two reasons. Either he is not a coward at all or there is no danger.

Dance music is one of the biggest export products in the Dutch economy these days.

Those who run to long words are mainly the unskillful and tasteless; they confuse pomposity with dignity, flaccidity with ease, and bulk with force.

Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.

What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men.

[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.