Rock'n'roll will never go away completely because it's so fundamentally attractive..

Every time you write a song, you're looking for some sort of perfection, and you never quite reach it. You're always looking for that extra missing p….

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..

That rock ‘n’roll, eh? That rock’n’roll, it just won’t go away. It might hibernate from time to time, sink back into the swamp. I think the cyclical ….

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

Songwriters always reminded me of that kid at school who would go around with his guitar, like, "Yeah, songwritin' man," looking wistful. That wasn't….

It was 2002, we all got guitars for Christmas and started playing in my garage that summer, rehearsed there and in a warehouse for a bit for about a ….

I took the batteries out my mysticism / 
And put them in my thinking cap.

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 p….

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

Love's not only blind but deaf..

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

I think each thing in a way acts as a stepping - stone for whatever the next thing is..

What came first the chicken or the dickhead?.

I can't draw. I'm good on the yo-yo, but I don't draw..

I saw that something changed in terms of the way I approach writing. I don't know. Before, everything was just sort of pieced together; and more and ….

I still miss the days when a haircut was just a haircut. It was only your mates you had to face. Now there's a whole industry centred around people a….

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

Sometimes writing songs is like waiting for deliveries..

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