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!

Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.

I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.

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

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

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.'

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