Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything.

Everyone from the pope to some hobo thinks, "I'm a human being. What am I doing here?" You can't get carried away with fame and fortune and all that. It's all nonsense. The whole pop-star side of it is all fun and good, but you don't get anywhere without putting in the hours. I get so fulfilled when we play a song live that we spent hours working on. It's all cool. Fame is something to have fun with, but you shouldn't take it too seriously because it is bollocks.

I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.

I don't mind not being cool.

All the children of America, up to age seven or eight or nine or ten - they're really great artists. So here we've got this amazing work that very few people pay any attention to, and it's not valued by the culture.

There's a reason why people who've had bad relationships with their parents listen to angry stuff.

Before our albums are released I feel like we still own it, that we have control over our music. But once it's out there in the world it's no longer ours.