I think it's good that opportunity, like circumstances, can really affect what you do and you have no control over it.

I think it's good that opportunity, like circumstances, can really affect what you do and you have no control over it.

I've never really been interested in replicating the record in live performance, because I'd just get bored. When I was young I used to go and see bands and, even if it was my favorite band, I'd get bored after twenty minutes.

It's quite a mistake to think that music fans don't work on major record companies. Sometimes, you know, you do find some good people on corporates, among all the infidels.

I never write a tune before the lyrics. I get the lyrics and then I write around them. Some people write music and the lyrics come along and they say, 'Oh yeah, I've got something to fit that.' If that's the way people write songs, I feel like you might as well just go to the supermarket.

Anybody that forms a group, writes songs and releases records and says they don't care if people like them are complete liars.

I'm always very interested in playing in front of different kinds of audiences. It always affects the way you play.