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..

Music fills the infinite between two souls..

The music I like to play is Rock 'N Roll. I like to rock like a wild animal. I like to rock it well enough to whip a yak's ass. I love to rock it goo….

The trouble with women in an orchestra is that if they're attractive it will upset my players and if they're not it will upset me..

If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice..

Always be more than you appear and never appear to be more than you are..

Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going..

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….

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

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

There are some composers - at the head of whom stands Beethoven - who not only do not know when to stop but appear to stop many times before they act….

The simpler things are, the happier they are..

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

Kind words are the music of the world..

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes..

The more you talk about something, the less accurate it gets..

Time punishes us by taking everything, but it also saves us - by taking everything.

3-D movies can make me nauseous..

Because love, love never finishes..

I do what I do because I love it..