Most traditional Scottish food is designed to use things that are just about to go...off.

Actually, my experience over the past couple of years hasn't necessarily been something that would be interesting, were it committed to record.

Festivals are a time to play the songs people know and are looking forward to hearing.

I like albums that knit together, where the songs relate to one another and intertwine.

I think people who traditionally ate haggis wouldn't eat the good cuts, 'cause they'd sell the good cuts to make their money, so they get left with all the crap.

In terms of covers, it's always nice to do ones that aren't actually getting played by the original artist anymore. I just love the song; I love that band, and it's nice to be able to play it.

Little deer, I've stuffed all the world's diseases inside you. / Your veins are thorns // and the good cells are lost in the deep dark woods / of your organs.

As Brian Urquhart has said quite correctly, I don't think that individual countries in the international community can stand aside and let all of these slaughters continue without doing anything.

I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.

None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.

Nevertheless, the basic forms, spaces, and appearances must be logical

My dream is to do things until 'I have no regrets'

Unless you love yourself, it's difficult to respect anyone else who holds that high an opinion of you.

I never count my money. I think that's your job.

There is not a single crowned head in Europe whose talents or merit would entitle him to be elected a vestryman by the people of any parish in America.

Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness.