I really want it to have an impact on the world. I want to be in a town on the other side of the world, and somebody walks up and says, 'That music you made in Glasgow, I listened to it every day, and it moved me.'
If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.
I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.
It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.
Why play a chord when you can play one note?
A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.
The Beatles were huge for me, ... I used to jump around the room to the red album, the one with all the early hits on it. It made you feel euphoric. It was a sensation I couldn't get from anything else, whether it was playing football, swimming or even seeing 'Star Wars.'
I have always been fascinated by the concept of the villain and the hero being in one person.
Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.
I want to change and try new ideas - allowing your sonic identity to evolve in your music and not being afraid of that. You see musicians hit upon something that works, and then go, "Let's keep doing that for 10 years." And that idea kind of terrifies me a little bit. It becomes like a day job then.
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!
A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through.
I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
Maybe 'Can't Stop Feeling' and 'Turn It On' we'll just release as singles. It's a thing The Beatles used to do which I really loved, the idea of releasing something as a single completely on its own.
I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.
Cinema, which is influenced by every single part of life, is direct and reaches you immediately. And writing - the best writing is complex ideas communicated concisely. And music - if it's a good tune, make sure people can bloody hear it!
Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party.
People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.
You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.
Boho to me is a first-year student who's just discovered the tie-dye shop.
For me upward social mobility is possible through talent and hard work and is a glowing endorsement of the benefits of living in a modern capitalist society. It's not so much evidence of a meritocracy, as evidence of healthy nepotism. Nepotism is at the core of a good group dynamic. A good group dynamic is at the core of rock'n'roll.
Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
