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

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.

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.

Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.

Illusion is a false perception but delusion is a fixed false belief.

Fine, but if and when the zombies team up with the mummies to take over the world, you can't live in my underground bunker.

...if men are to be ruled, then the enemy is reason.

In a culture of domination, preoccupation with victimage is inevitable.

I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.

I've never wanted to be part of an inner circle of any scene. I've always been an outsider looking to question and subvert.

Business can talk itself into a blue funk.

Accepting new challenges makes me come alive.

...our eyes locked in one of those looks that sometimes happen between strangers, when both wordlessly agree that reality contains sinkholes whose depths neither can ever hope to fathom.

Mostly we just add to the piles of rainbow glass that's been blown off the exteriors of the cany-colored buildings.