Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.

I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.

If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.

I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.

I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess.

I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think.

I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.

The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.

Being real is what is important.

I am really addicted to music.

Yesterday, the president met with a group he calls the coalition of the willing. Or, as the rest of the world calls them, Britain and Spain

Be gentle with all people. We all have different struggles.

I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me.

What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.

Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.

I'd love to do a cop film in America. That's a genre I absolutely adore.

The author portrays himself in every line he writes and portrayal is always betrayal.

I love the fact that the present is the only real reality we have.

We decide what we will make of each and every situation. We decide whether we’ll break or whether we’ll resist.

The juice goes out of Christianity when it becomes too based on faith rather than on living like Jesus or seeing the world as Jesus saw it.