There's something to be said for writing in the morning. At other points in the day, you're a bit more defensive.

There is always that one band that comes along when you are 14 or 15 years old that manages to hit you in just the right way and changes your whole perception of things.

A lot of peopletell me I'm a bit dreamy, but I like the idea of that. Of being somewhere else.

You spend your time thinking about that and you get lost in reflection.

Love's not only blind but deaf.

There's that 15 quid we put on One Direction to win down the drain.

What came first the chicken or the dickhead?

There have always been jokes all over our songs; I originally started writing lyrics to make my friends crack a smile, which is difficult.

Maybe I'm too busy being yours to fall for somebody new.

I just wanted to do something that would freak people out. That's the best thing to do.

You can't worry what people think.

It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.

The Nation needs to take a new approach to our energy problems.

When I say or do something I do it, I don't give a damn what you think, I'm doing this for me.

All the best bands have a language, and what they say within that language makes it is what it is.

Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land.

If you don't want to be the biggest band in the world, you may as well pack it in.

The happiness you have a right to enjoy has a name and a face: it is Jesus of Nazareth, hidden in the Eucharist.

I need some challenges in love or I'm bored.

It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.

I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.