Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.

There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.

I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.

Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.

I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.

It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.

Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!

Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.

Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.

My definition for GOD that works for me is “Pure Energy, Supreme Consciousness.” The highest resolution of pure energy we use is the sensation we call “love.

The sacred-time will hold my babies in my hand.

The gatekeeper to the subconscious mind has to be overcome first before NAPS can work, and it is in the theta state when the gatekeeper can be bypassed. This is when NAPS works!

Mel exhaled. "Why are you forcing me into the voice-of-reason role? You know that never works out for us.

Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

Remember that the more you know, the less you fear.

The church that will not give up will be outdated and passed by, quicker than they realize.

If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they will escape us like a will-o'-the-wisp.

I also love a film by Ang Lee - "Lust, Caution."

Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.