There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.

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.

People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.

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

I really want it to have an impact on the world. I want to be in a town on the other side of the world, and somebody walks up and says, 'That music you made in Glasgow, I listened to it every day, and it moved me.'

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!

I have always been fascinated by the concept of the villain and the hero being in one person.