I didn't really like being at college. It wasn't like it was Oxford and had been the most wonderful time of my life. It was really a dull, boring course I was stuck on.

Most people in England don't live in the North, and people are snobby in England, so they wanted a band from the South.

People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don't know what really matters.

I don't want to be my extravert self all the time.

My father was furious with me, absolutely furious. I'm sure he wouldn't have been so mad if I'd have volunteered to join the army. Anything but this. He couldn't believe it. I agree with him: It wasn't a viable career opportunity.

Rock has to absorb other rhythmic forms, because the underlying rhythm of music changes with fashion, and people like to move differently, and the underlying rhythms have to be the ones that people want to dance to.

It's okay to let yourself go, just as long as you let yourself back.