If I could be any famous person, I'd be John Wilkes Booth, because I'd love to shoot Abraham Lincoln in the face

If we replaced all of our guns with chicken sandwiches it would end all war immediately.

People in bands don't have the kind of conversations people might think they have. The best things about being in a band are the things that are unsaid.

I can be very drunk in a club in Oxford on a Monday night and some guy comes up to you and buys you a drink and says that the last record you made changed his life. That means something.

I cannot read a fortune cookie without breaking down and crying. I am sensitive.

And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it.

I suppose one thing that's always fascinated me is that thing where you're a band and you want to start recording and you get a label and a producer, and then there's that pressure to go out there and really toil.