No matter how much you sit there twiddling, going, 'We're all doomed', at the end of the day people will always want to hear you play Creep. Get over….

I just think Radiohead are f-in' miserable bastards..

I have to be myself, I can't be no one else..

You've just got to trust your instincts and realize that you can't please all the people all the time. You've got to please yourself ultimately in th….

In business, you can have one massive success that earns $50 million overnight, and that's it. You're successful. End of story. But in the music busi….

You gotta say what you say, Don't let anybody get in your way....

I have 3 kids and a cat and a busy, noisy house. I get more time to relax when I'm working..

I don't have the genetic make-up of a frontman, but I'm learning how to do it..

There was a euphoria in the music and the way it was delivered, and, as the crowds started to get bigger, it fed off itself until it became less abou….

All i would like to say is that I'm rich and you're not..

I don't like being on television when I'm playing live. I don't even like being on Jools Holland or any of them programs..

You're asking if I'm happy? I've got 87 million in the bank, I've got a Rolls Royce, I've got 3 stalkers, I'm about to go on the board at Manchester ….

I don't live to work; I work to live..

I don't fall into the category of tortured artist. But it's not made me more or less anything..

I've grown to love California: It's the dream of every English musician to come here and work in the sunshine. To walk up Sunset Boulevard, knowing y….

I've always been into guitars. We want to put keyboards on, but keyboard players don't look cool onstage, they just keep their heads down. There has ….

Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He's mad as custard..

We like annoying people. It's a Manchester thing. It's a trait. We just like pissing people off..

I like being famous. It can be a bit of a pain but you get free food in restaurants and people send you clothes..

My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think..

I'm equal part genius, equal part buffoon..