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!

Anyone can play an instrument if you show them how to move their limbs, lips or fingers the right way. It's irrelevant. What is relevant is personality, energy, creativity and disturbing sense of humour.

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.

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

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

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

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.