Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party.

Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.

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.

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

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

Music should be universal. My life perspective, my lifestyle - I'm not going to impose that on the people that listen to my music. That's kind of a perverse form of snobbery I like to reject.

Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.