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.

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.

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.

Reflection of the Past, Acceptance of What Was, and the Discovery of the Humor in All ThingsHeals Even the Deepest of Wounds

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights. You can't ever put the pieces back together after they hit home.

Material blessings fade and deteriorate, but your riches in Christ are everlasting.

Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he isn't a man of action.

I always said that I wouldn't use a teleprompter, and if I start to sing real flat, I'll hang it up.

Many times in my life I've been upset about something and said to myself, "Will this matter in two years?" Not even in two months.

We can't live without eating, but we don't live to eat.

I don't follow football, I just love the name Aston Villa. Here in England you have other footballing entities like Manchester and Arsenal and Chelsea

Taking the best left-handed pitcher in baseball and converting him into a right fielder is one of the dumbest things I ever heard.