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.'

It's fine to indulge yourself so long as you don't try and foist it on the rest of the world.

Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.

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.

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.

Why play a chord when you can play one note?

It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.