You don't really want to be always thinking about the future, always thinking about where you're heading for. You've got to think about how you're getting there.

My kids love vinyl, I had to teach them how to put the needle on the records. Now they're worried about scratching the records, but it's incredible!

We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops.

After a foreign invasion, there has to be a sort of feeling of musical inadequacy in the country.

These days I think people give up too easily. Everyone says it’s about compromise, which it is. Love, compromise, promises, presents help. But ultimately it’s about not giving up. People are led to believe that if it’s not perfect then just ditch it and change it, these days. That’s a mistake.

I'm not a snob. Ask anybody-well, anybody who matters.

I feel sorry for the '90s, because it was never able to be anything much more than the hangover to the party that was the '80s.