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

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.

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 am really addicted to music.

When one wants to be famous, one has to dive gracefully into rivers of the blood of cannon-blasted bodies.

Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.

Man's capacity for evil makes democracy necessary and man's capacity for good makes democracy possible.

Venison and venery defeated me.

The two most important forms of intelligence are the ability to read other people and the ability to understand oneself.

I love doing shows. I love rocking shows. I love playing instruments. I love singing. If I can find a way to do that and feed my family, then I'm a happy man.

The importance of gratitude is never forgotten.

If most of the breaks go to wealthy people it's because most of the people who pay taxes are wealthy.

The oil patch pays good. They're decent jobs paying between 50 and 70 thousand a year. Fracking has a big impact on the oil consumption in the United States.

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.