I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.

When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.

My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.

I'd like to record somewhere really different. Rent a really big house and get a mobile in and set up in the dining room. Maybe New England; it'd be nice in September or October.

Every animal would rather die themselves than lose their offspring. But it's just genes, isn't it? All of our existence is spent worrying about the next generation, but we don't actually seem to get anywhere.

I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them.

Each time I play a song it seems more real.