Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.

I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.

When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.

If you feel alienated from people around you, it's because no one tries to understand you.

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

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.

It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good at the political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa.