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 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'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.

I began to consider the fact that maybe history is actually the great destroyer of free will.

The hard truths are the ones to hold tight. - Old Bear

Water is like a child, it always wants to be in motion.

Sucess in life depends primarily upon three things: discovery of who you are, what you can do best, and where you are going.

It seems very obvious that a vast majority of the American people are sick and tired of political correctness and prevailing partisanship that does not serve the American people or freedom well.

I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure.

I will close my eyes and leap.

Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.

One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they moved with less grace that I knew was possible of deaf people.

Somewhere in the fear and chaos, there is a clarity that few will ever experience.