It's fine to indulge yourself so long as you don't try and foist it on the rest of the world.

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.

There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.

I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.

Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.

I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.

It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.

Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!

Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.

Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.

I love feeling the rhythm of other people's lives. It's like traveling.

Let your emotions guide your hand to the paper and watch how your sorrows can turn into beauty. For tears relieve your body but writing relieves your heart.

The hour is ripe and yonder lies the way.

Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.

Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it.

Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.

Writers have superpowers.

At the midpoint on the journey of life, I found myself in a dark forest, for the clear path was lost.

It's such a happiness when good people get together.

Only three things are necessary to make life happy: the blessing of God, books , and a friend.