I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.

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.'

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

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.

Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.

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.