The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.
There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.
You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you.
It's fine to indulge yourself so long as you don't try and foist it on the rest of the world.
I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.
It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.
You can't write for the cultural environment - if you do that, by the time it comes out, that cultural environment has passed. You have to be aiming for something that's original - that's the only way you can have any kind of impact.
Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.
Although they might not admit it, I think girls are very aware of the impact that they're having. But they never feel it themselves, and it's impossible to explain. It's like trying to tell a blind person what yellow is.
Anyone can play an instrument if you show them how to move their limbs, lips or fingers the right way. It's irrelevant. What is relevant is personality, energy, creativity and disturbing sense of humour.
Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!
Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.
Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.
Music should be universal. My life perspective, my lifestyle - I'm not going to impose that on the people that listen to my music. That's kind of a perverse form of snobbery I like to reject.
I find American football quite ridiculous generally. I don't understand it. It looks like a lot of guys dressed up as spacemen shouting at each other.
It's easy to be lazy when there's food lying around backstage or there's a fast-food joint a couple blocks away. But if you walk a little further, ask around a bit, of course there are exciting things to discover.
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.
Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.
If I was a fan of someone as a teenager, then it's OK for me to feel completely in awe when I meet them.
You're letting such a fragile side of yourself out when you're creating or writing music. To do that with people who are almost strangers would seem very strange to me. I think that we're very lucky that we're quite close. To us, it's almost like the band is the grandest possible adventure you can go on with your friends. It's really really exciting.
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.
Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.
