Love is blind, definitely. You never know someone truly or properly, that's what I've discovered.

I think that's an interesting point of being a songwriter, is to write songs that make people think.

I might take what I do very seriously, but at least I'm doing something, rather than sitting on my arse and being no-one.

I've sacrificed lots of aspects of my personal life to do what I do.

People can get blinded by a sense of being comfortable or feeling secure, but that's quite a cynical point of view.

Lyrically I address loads of things that I've never talked about before, about me or about other people.

I got to a crossroads in my life where basically I was asked to choose between staying at home and being with them, or being in a band and doing what I want to do.

I think every touring musician sacrifices aspects of their life to do it.

If you don't know exactly what you want, that is exactly what you will get.

A journey through nature is always a road to leads to self-discovery.

The blood of Christ purchased the church.

Don’t even talk to me about being a mother. You were never a mother! Just the psychotic twat I lived with for the first fourteen years.

Paint what you see, not what you know.

Don't ever go on a diet. Just don't. Walk away. Diets are the spawn of Satan.

I'm excited about the old songs. That's a nice place to be after grinding out the music business for twenty years.

People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.

God loves you enough , trusts you enough, to let affliction come into your life to see whether you will exercise the muscles of faith while your physical muscles begin to atrophy.

I know we play a part in the story of progressive music, but for us those influences are the real fathers, the ones that we were interested in.