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.

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.

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.

Revenge easily descends into an endless cycle of hate and violence. The Bible says never repay evil with evil.

When it comes to achieving, what matters is you to know, what you really want and make up your mind to believe in your own efforts that you will achieve and you will make it with ease.

It is so easy to waste our lives: Our days, our hours, our minutes ... it is so easy to exist instead of live.

Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.

Perfect preparation doesn’t exist. Excellent adaptation does.

In this world, there is life and death; he who misses the life shall never die anymore, because he is already a dead!

I love pre-code movies. Some of my favorites are movies with Warren William and there is an MGM film called "Skyscraper Souls" which is the best Warner Brothers movie that MGM ever made.

Love is a universal migraine. A bright stain on the vision, Blotting out reason.

I eat tons of green veggies to keep my PH balance in check.

You become what you think about all day long and those days eventually become your lifetime.