I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the lyrics I sang.

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.

The greatest religion you can ever have throughout your entire existence, is Love.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

Two things make a relationship providential: when we hear from God through someone and when we see God in someone.

Bill Heseltine had been at university with me, at the University of Western Australia. I knew him well.

Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose.

The liberality of sentiment toward each other, which marks every political and religious denomination of men in this country, stands unparalleled in the history of nations.

I love thoroughness. I respect people that do a job well.

Every generation blames the generation before them.

Mathematics may, be briefly defined as the science of quantities, and is one of the most important of disciplining studies which engage the practical student.

He was the boy that made mix tapes with themes and hand-colored covers until the day he hit my sister and stopped crying.