It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.

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

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

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

You can't write for the cultural environment - if you do that, by the time it comes out, that cultural environment has passed. You have to be aiming for something that's original - that's the only way you can have any kind of impact.

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.

Boho to me is a first-year student who's just discovered the tie-dye shop.