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.

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

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.

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

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

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.

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