You can always have it better. If you try... [This is the right attitude:] Never to feel [completely] satisfied, always to want to do something better!

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.

Jesus was a hiker. The wilderness was His retreat.

eyes running over me like the work of a hundred biting ants

They say the world has always struggled with injustice and always will. But change is more possible than ever before.

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.

Not a single leaf moves in this country if I'm not the one moving it.

Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will.

I dont really enjoy watching reality TV.

It's very difficult to change the perception people have of you.

It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.