Although they might not admit it, I think girls are very aware of the impact that they're having. But they never feel it themselves, and it's impossible to explain. It's like trying to tell a blind person what yellow is.

Why play a chord when you can play one note?

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.

It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.

There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast.

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.'

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