You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you.
Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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.
Why play a chord when you can play one note?
It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.