My drive is something that I don't fully understand..

Nothing can duplicate the sheer power and feeling you get from standing in front of your amp and bashing on your guitar..

Nothing is true unless it works. And it has to work for you, not for someone else..

A lot of places we go, when they see the organ coming in, they're expecting rock and roll, but after they hear us play they like it. To me, guitar cu….

I love the guitar for its harmony; it is my constant companion in all my travels..

Upward, not Northward.

I've never really been schooled in music theory. I'm a guitar player, and I attack the guitar in a certain way that it not fully unique to me, but it….

It's always a pleasure when you can compose guitar parts from a strong vocal and not just put the melody on top of guitar riffs..

I suppose ultimately I'm interested in music. I'm a musician. I'm not a gunslinger. That's the difference between what I do and what a lot of guitar ….

By 40, all women are amazing..

An image is always only showing what's necessary for a thought, not the thought itself..

Someone suggested the Kaiser Chiefs while we were looking for a band name. We had so many ideas ourselves, at least one of us had said no to every id….

I lived and languished..

There is something in us that can be without us, and will be after us, though indeed it hath no history of what it was before us, and cannot tell how….

Eventually as a teenager, I was pulled up on stage by James Brown's saxophone player, Maceo Parker, during one of his concerts and scatted on his sta….

Words will be just words till you bring them to life.

When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling..

I am occasionally loveable but for the most part I’m like loving a raincloud..

The simpler things are, the happier they are..

Possibly I've become less funny as I've been happier..

If you were a performer that only had an acoustic instrument, back in the day you couldn't hide behind your guitar pedals or the production or the vi….