You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.

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.

My mantra is if you raise money, don't waste it.

Children are wise in a funny kind of way. They haven't developed so many vested interests of self. There is a wisdom, a lack of self-consciousness, that is innocence.

Everyone has some dysfunction in their families. They have to deal with it. You don't walk away if you love someone. You help the person.

I'm tired of leaving my wife at home with no nanny and no cook to take care of four kids by herself.

As I get older, I might need to keep the stubble off. As the years come, it helps to look younger I guess.

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.

Brands always mean something. If you don't define what the brand means, your competitors will

My nickname is Dickie Jukebox.

The bulk of my calls are from agents who are letting you know about material that's coming your way.

Un-thread the rude eye of rebellion, and welcome home again discarded faith.