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

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'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.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

What isn’t clear, isn’t French.

People forget they have options. And they forget that those things really don't matter. They should concentrate on what they have and not what they don't have.

As nice as the Apple iPhone is, it poses a real challenge to its users. Try typing a web key on a touchscreen on an Apple iPhone, that's a real challenge. You cannot see what you type.

He [Winston Churchill] has a future and I have a past, so we should be all right.

Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything.

Drugs have been in the game for a long time. They were there when I was in college, and even in high school. It's in life. It's in business. It's everywhere.

It was important to keep moving. Certain struggles continued. Others had to be brought to a close. The wisdom was in deciding which.

Doctors should first understand the cause of disease, then treat it with diet. Medicine should only be used if diet fails