I like patterns in words. I'm not really interested in meaning.

Pretty much every artist in Scotland - musician, writer, poet, actor - they're all part of a thing called the National Collective.

I never trust songwriters who talk about what their song is about.

I've made solo records and that's all been a learning experience. I've just got better at singing and more comfortable with who I am and my voice.

I'm quite happy for my voice to be pushed up, whereas in the past I wanted it buried with the guitars, or part of the band, not like I was thinking of myself as 'the singer'.

I suppose if a band is like a gang, it is a moment in time.

I've made a living out of music since I was 19, which is something I'm really happy about.

If you want meaning, you read poetry or a novel or something, you don't read song lyrics. You're supposed to listen to them with music.

[S]he'd realized that he had loved her only because she belonged to him.

The sad fact is, there are 7.220.400.641 people on the planet, but right now I haven't got a single one to talk to.

She came to me like an angelTried to change meBut a dog will always be a dogI didn't changeThings got worseLost herMaybe I will move on but its very hard to forget all the memories we made.

I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek.

The proper way to create friends is to have a warm heart, not simply money or power. The friend of power and the friend of money are something different.

It is a ridiculous notion to assert that because the United States is on the offense, more people want to hurt us. We are on the offense because people do want to hurt us.

The Future belongs to those who can spread ideas.

Many parts of my life are perfectly ordinary, if that's what you mean. One could even call it boring, but that's what I like about it.

The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.

Dont pretend to be that small, you are not that great!