The word mystical is an even worse word than spirituality - that artists take drugs, and then they add some crazy extra thing to what we all know is real. But our job as artists or as human beings is to investigate what we really think is real.

I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.

There comes a point where it doesn't matter how many zeroes are at the end of your bank account.

Everything in my life is a fragile decision that somebody else made.

I have my moments - usually twice every album - when I basically lose it.

Although it's painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively - some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don't agree with, you don't work on.

I never talk about my wife: we're both in public professions but we try to keep our private life private.