I always work hard to have a very close connection to the fans.

I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.

If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.

I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.

Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.

I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess.

I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think.

I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.

The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.

Being real is what is important.

I think of you only twice a day - when I am alone and when I am with someone else.

Of course, I’ve told Jesus to suck it, too, which earned me a certain measure of notoriety, because you have to make fun of any religion that would let you have sixteen kids and say it’s God’s will.

He was not of an age but for all time!

There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests.

I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.

You know, every time it comes, every time that light comes on or every time that camera comes on, every time that microphone comes on, the Mac Man seek and destroy.

It’s only useful to ask, what wisdom have you learned from your misjudgments that will help you going forward?

There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.

I don't feel like I have a normal day if I don't exercise or work out.

I don't know if I'm so righteous.