It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.

Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.

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.

The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?

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

You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.

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