There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.

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.

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.

Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.

Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say.Of course those who write short books have even less to say.

The journey itself is going to change you, so you don’t have to worry about memorizing the route we took to accomplish that change.

I've played a ghost, cat, snake. I've been funny, sad. I've been filmed flying on screen. So why not spend time on something else? I don't need to accept everything I'm offered.

Big, skinny, regular size it doesn't matter as long as your young.

I firmly believe that the future of civilization is absolutely dependent upon finding some way of resolving international differences without resorting to war.

For a good life: Work like a dog. Eat like a horse. Think like a fox. And play like a rabbit.

I really appreciate the British part of my family.

What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.

Mysteriously, as elusive as it is, this moment--where the eye is what it sees, where the heart is what it feels--this moment shows us that what is real is sacred

As if at the age of eighteen life already sucked beyond any hope of improvement.