It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.

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.

A leader without a team, is a car without steering wheel

Ryan rolled his eyes. "Harper, you and David Stark have been circling each other since kindergarden.

I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.

I'm coming 'round to the view that there's only a personal view of the world.

I have people that I'm close to that give me things to read throughout the season, and in particular in the playoffs and the postseason.

...In the history of medicine and science, no chronic or metabolic disease has been cured by factors foreign to the diet, (or) to biological experience.

There are sometimes beauties in a character which would never have appeared but for a defect, and defects which would never have appeared but for a beauty.

There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.

When the time comes, they won't ask what kind of a Jew you are.

Listen to the sound of the earth turning.