Either we stay at home and become pillars of the community or we go out and tour. We couldn't really find any communities that still needed pillars.

That's one of the good things about a lot of the young British bands, they are mixing all styles of music. I think that's very good because that's very now.

I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.

The Beatles were so big that it's hard for people not alive at the time to realize just how big they were.

Country music... doesn't bend notes in the same way, so I suppose it's very English, really. Even though it's been very Americanized, it feels very close to me, to my roots, so to speak.

Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.

I didn't want to make teenage comedies, and I didn't want to make really trashy films. I wanted to make films that were a bit challenging.