I think artists can influence only through making music that challenges people, excites them and flips them out. Music that repeats what you know in ever-decreasing derivation, that's unchallenging and unstimulating, deadens our minds, our imagination and our ability to see beyond the hell we find ourselves in.

I once wrote a song so beautiful that I myself couldn't sing it. It's called Plastic Government Cheese Swan, and it's about how the world is plastic and full of government cheese swans.

We don't have to stand on a soap-box and preach because hopefully we're channelling it through the new record.

It's God's will that millions of people are gonna die this year because of some outmoded economic policies? No, it's not!

At the KFC there's, lot of black people there innit *laughs*

Do you think Radiohead is my whole goddamn life? I also have a roadside cart where I sell apples and mincemeat pies.

Maybe I'm not the gloaming witches smart, but at least I'm not our stupid liffey hamburger mongrels