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

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

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.

Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.

Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed.

But now I remember, of course, I'm never going to be old.

You'll see some great performances [in Fences]. And I'm not just saying that because I directed it either! You'll see!

I do a lot of reading, meditating, and praying to stay as grounded as I can be in this crazy world.

Man arose to high moral vision two thousand years before the Hebrew nation was born.

Place the team above yourself always.

When you get a chance to work with Aaron Sorkin, you don't say no. You drop everything you're doing.

The third basic need of a male in a relationship is an attractive woman; for a woman, honesty and openness.

You know, no matter what I am or what I do for a living, I'm still, you know, the husband and the dad and the protector of the house, and I have to be conscientious about that.

Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms.