I have always been fascinated by the concept of the villain and the hero being in one person.

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.

I want your most vital organ. I want it to be mine.

Of course I wasn't abused. If I were

I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams

Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure.

Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict.

The line between playing to win and sin is thin, But I walk it with grace and I talk it with taste. I am that raw, simply put, and I rest my case.

It must be a sign of talent that I do not give up, though I can get nobody to take an interest in my efforts.

Most people think of success in terms of getting; success, however, begins in terms of giving.

I have no idea what the hell is going on in the world, in my life, in what anything means, or what I'm supposed to do.

In the end, it's the reality of personal realtionships that save everything.