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

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'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.

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.

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.

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.

A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through.