There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like doing what people expect me to do.

You look up to your heroes and you shouldn't be intimidated by them; you should be inspired by them.

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for people to do. It's not about being perfect, it's not about sounding absolutely correct, it's not about what goes on in a computer. It's about what goes on in here [your heart] and what goes on in here [your head].

Because you have things like 'American Idol' and you've got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it's easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.

I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief.

When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it is.