When I come up with something that I feel like people will connect with that makes me happy because I know that it would be something that would just go beyond me.

I have three brothers. Poor Mum; four boys.

I feel like so many people get into that place where creating for someone else is selling out and it is so not about that. It is a stupid, kind of pretentious way of thinking.

I feel like writing music is a great chance to create something that extends beyond yourself.

If we all knew how to make that jump from good to great then I think every song would be great.

Something like film, I guess there are so many elements to it, like the dialogue and what makes sense culturally.

There is a balance in between where you can still make art, but it does not have to be insular.

You don't make a film and then be like I am only going to play it in my house and no-one is going to see it - that is ridiculous.

I feel like it is only music where people are like, "You can't do this for other people, you have to do it for yourself." Which I hate.

I think my first song ever was when my cat died. It was this awful, dreadful black cat who was angry and hated everything. Yet I was so upset when it died.

It is one of those things that is universally connectable, people can connect to it from everywhere; music is like that universal language.

Whatever he knows of his weaknesses, Private Mulvaney is wholly ignorant of his strength.

"Honesty" without compassion and understanding is not honesty but subtle hostility.

That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

Establish a system you have confidence in and rely on it when you get into tough situations.

Hope is what makes the human condition liveable

Everything seemed meaningless to me. All of a sudden. My own life, the lives of others, of animals of plants, the whole world. It no longer fitted together.

Mother, may I go and maffick, Tear around and hinder traffic?

I played guitar all my life, all the way through the Yardbirds, but I knew that for me this was going to be a guitar vehicle, because that's what I wanted it to be.

The essence of apostasy is changing sides from that of the crucified to that of the crucifier.

All men are rapists and that's all they are