You can't live life being afraid, because fear censors ambition.

I wish I could do something else, I wish I was an amazing painter or a brain surgeon or something, but it's just what it's been.

Instinct is the most powerful thing you have, and you have to trust it.

You have to follow your instinct, and that's what I've tried to do all my life, whether in music or anything.

There's zero correlation between owning music and being a greater music lover or musician than the next person.

When someone walks into my room and goes 'wow' at my record collection, at that moment I could actually hate music and just want to go sit in the garden.

All the best bands have a language, and what they say within that language makes it is what it is.