I like to push people till I get the truth out of them.

I was picked on because I was timid. I had younger sisters; I couldn't turn to them for help. I didn't have an older brother.

The thing with me, I can't talk about my work. I find it very difficult.

We were playing a festival in Dublin the other week. There was this other group, like, warming up in the next sort of chalet, and they were terrible. I said, 'Shut them cunts up!' And they were still warming up, so I threw a bottle at them. The bands said, 'That's the Sons of Mumford' or something. 'They're number five in charts!' I just thought they were a load of retarded Irish folk singers.

I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange.

I can write, boy, I can write. That's what I do. The trouble is that it's too bloody easy for people, that's why music is in the sorry state that it is. Any idiot, actors mainly, can go in there, sing a chord, bang on a machine... I'm not objecting to that but when people get at me for trying to say something in a rock 'n' roll mode it's as if I'm the freak.

Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this?