If I was a fan of someone as a teenager, then it's OK for me to feel completely in awe when I meet them.

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.

There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.

I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.

Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.

I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.

It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.

Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!

Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.

Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.

There is nothing so eloquent as a thing well done.

When there is complete peace of mind when the outer world is chaotic you will truly be free.

War is the ultimate realization of modern technology.

The two men stared at each other. Assumptions were made, judgments rendered, dicks measured.

The sage attends to the belly, and not to what he sees.

Wheel of Fortune was an important SAT prep for me.

Love is impossible without bite marks.

on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals

The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.

Sure, I've done movies in which I was embarrassed by my performance, or might not have cared for a co-star. Then I'd have to tell lies, like, 'Oh, we love each other; everything was perfect!'