I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.

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

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.

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

I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.

Cinema, which is influenced by every single part of life, is direct and reaches you immediately. And writing - the best writing is complex ideas communicated concisely. And music - if it's a good tune, make sure people can bloody hear it!

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.