If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.

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

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

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.

Cinema, which is influenced by every single part of life, is direct and reaches you immediately. And writing - the best writing is complex ideas communicated concisely. And music - if it's a good tune, make sure people can bloody hear it!

You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.

I find American football quite ridiculous generally. I don't understand it. It looks like a lot of guys dressed up as spacemen shouting at each other.