Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration.

- Mike Rutherford

Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.

- Mike Rutherford

I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and ye…

- Mike Rutherford

I would feel horrible to think I had put my name on a pistol permit and allowed someone to carry around a gun and they committed another crime.

- Mike Rutherford

I'm completely hooked on polo.

- Mike Rutherford

Nothing's planned. Never say never.

- Mike Rutherford

We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness.

- Mike Rutherford

I can assume that the younger generations will no longer know what vinyl was. Maybe some kids will take their CD back to the shop, telling the shop o…

- Mike Rutherford

When I've finished one project, I start thinking about the next.

- Mike Rutherford