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.

You're letting such a fragile side of yourself out when you're creating or writing music. To do that with people who are almost strangers would seem very strange to me. I think that we're very lucky that we're quite close. To us, it's almost like the band is the grandest possible adventure you can go on with your friends. It's really really exciting.

A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.

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

You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.

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

Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.