No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you.

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.

If you organize your life around your passion, you can turn your passion into your story and then turn your story into something bigger - something that matters.

My greatest gift ever is public embarrassment and shame

Better a crust of black bread than a mountain of paper confections, Better a daisy in earth than a dahlia cut and gathered, Better a cowslip with root than a prize carnation without it

The present challenge to the photographer is to express inner significance through outward form.

The blankets had fallen off and I stared down at her white back, the shoulder blades sticking out as if they wanted to grow into wings, poke through that skin. Little blades. She was helpless.

Without question, conditions in the Haiti are worse since Aristide's removal, and continue to deteriorate.

Lack of rule of law is the main reason Pakistan could not join the ranks of progressive nations.

Practice is just as valuable as a sale. The sale will make you a living; the skill will make you a fortune.

I'd love to work on a script in collaboration.

Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.