In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated.

Sometimes I'll get to the end of a song, open my eyes and there's all these faces peering at me. It's quite horrifying.

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

I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.

I don't find the technology threatening. A lot of people my age, my generation, find it difficult to immerse themselves. But I would never preclude the idea of using any technology if I thought it suited the end result.

I don't dislike my peers because they're still around and remind me of what I'm doing. I never liked them anyway. I never liked U2, the things they've done over the years.

I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.