I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity.

Progression is going forwards. Going backwards is regression. Going sideways is just gression.

I don't like being on television when I'm playing live. I don't even like being on Jools Holland or any of them programs.

I've grown to love California: It's the dream of every English musician to come here and work in the sunshine. To walk up Sunset Boulevard, knowing you're going to make music - that's it.

Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from one song to another.

I've never understood musicians who don't enjoy doing promotional interviews. I just can't believe it. I always think, 'Your life must have been so brilliant before you were in a band.'

When you're in a band and there's five of you, you have to accommodate five people in every song.