Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the i….

You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness..

I find American football quite ridiculous generally. I don't understand it. It looks like a lot of guys dressed up as spacemen shouting at each other..

Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band..

Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me..

Anyone can play an instrument if you show them how to move their limbs, lips or fingers the right way. It's irrelevant. What is relevant is personali….

There's a difference between expectations and aspirations..

I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour..

Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens..

You can't write for the cultural environment - if you do that, by the time it comes out, that cultural environment has passed. You have to be aiming ….

It's easy to be lazy when there's food lying around backstage or there's a fast-food joint a couple blocks away. But if you walk a little further, as….

Music should be universal. My life perspective, my lifestyle - I'm not going to impose that on the people that listen to my music. That's kind of a p….

It's fine to indulge yourself so long as you don't try and foist it on the rest of the world..

Although they might not admit it, I think girls are very aware of the impact that they're having. But they never feel it themselves, and it's impossi….

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 li….

You're letting such a fragile side of yourself out when you're creating or writing music. To do that with people who are almost strangers would seem ….

Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history..

No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you..

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

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!.