There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast.

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.

Every challenge provides light. The light of understanding about life and truth.

The exegetical foundations would appear to be weak, and one shouldn’t build huge theological edifices, no matter how splendid or consistent, on weak foundations.

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.

When I was really young, I can remember being into fashion, but I was really into horses and sports.

To me, the nicest luxury would be to have a room where I could keep all my books in one place - and have space for more.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

I can tell you where my Tonys are. They're in a beautiful place in my living room, in a glass cabinet.

We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.

Focus on remedies, not faults.

When everyone thinks alike, no one thinks very much.