I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.

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.

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

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

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

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!

If I was a fan of someone as a teenager, then it's OK for me to feel completely in awe when I meet them.