If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.

I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.

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

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.

Every person is an entrance to another world.

Few are they who have never had the chance to achieve happiness ... and fewer those who have taken that chance.

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.

It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.

History shows that people often do cast their votes for amorphous reasons-the most powerful among them being the need for change. Just ask Bill Clinton.

It was only his fifth offense, and this time he's killed someone.

I remember watching Jodie Foster in Contact, and that kind of opened my eyes.

If songs were lines in a conversation, the situation would be fine . . .

I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell; I know right now you can't tell; But stay a while and maybe then you'll see; A different side of me

He who wins people, prospers; he who loses them, fails. Your present plan should be to seek humans of high aims and farseeing views, and you can establish yourself firmly.