Youth is so cynical. There's never anything to believe in as a teen.

Nobody starts a band to make friends; you do it because of the music.

There's so much to be said for making your guitar sound like a synthesizer and try to make your drummer sound like a drum machine.

I'm really excited about the remixes. I've always been a fan of electronic music and I'm thinking about that very seriously for the next record as well.

Everyone tries to research your background. I have a real fear of celebrity and exposing my real self.

I never understood the low art/high art distinction.

I never saw the point in listening to only one thing. The low art/high art distinction comes from the establishment telling me how I'm supposed to think.

Patriotism is a joke in the UK.

Even that word depends on what you mean by pop. I mean, pop music has currency. It could just be about that girl who's in love with you.

I think there's real currency in pop culture.

There's so much that you can do if you mimic your style to a drum machine. I think that's far more exciting.

If people let you down.Improve.You don't have to change for their entertainment.

...no one can afford not to be a man. No position can compensate for coming face to face with a robot when you are alone.

Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. This is why we may also call it Presence.

But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me.

I know what it takes to win ball games.

Understand this well: there is something holy, something divine hidden in the most ordinary situations, and it is up to each one of you to discover it.

Certain souls may seem harsh to others, but it is just a way, beknownst only to them, of caring and feeling more deeply.

When love and adventure are finished, it's nice to have getting and spending to fall back on.

A lot of people call Dizzy old fashioned but so is the bible.