No one wants to be some guy who puts records out about how good it is. That seems quite arrogant.

Just getting out of your town seems to be a pervasive thing in England. But I don't want to keep grinding the axe forever, it's boring.

It's weird for me to try and write punk songs - I'm almost scared of it.

I understand why there's a natural suspicion of the "Next Big British Band."

When I was growing up in Wakefield in the 90s I would get in fights for carrying a guitar around.

I grew up in a place where a lot of my friends had horses, so I grew up riding. But I'm not an expert.

To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.

We need to continuously put pressure on politicians to do more, because they are happy just to do nothing—it’s easier to do nothing.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me

Voices and faces aren't manifestations of good or bad.

Just keep it simple. When you over-think what you're wearing, that's when wardrobe malfunctions tend to happen.

When we did the first sequel [of the Austin Powers] , it was on coattails of the first one doing so well when it was released on video, so we really didn't know what to do with the second plot.

For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind.

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.