Although it’s painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively – some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don’t agree with, you don’t work on.
I’ve had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn’t got any worse – touch wood.
If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.
It’s difficult when you’re successful, to admit that you need help.
When I’m 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music.
It’s very hard to find things that rhyme with North American Free Trade Agreement.
I think it’s part of being English, particularly if you are middle-class – you’re always looking to be reminded that you are no good and you are always actually embarrassed about being successful.
I’ve either got an acute case of hypochondria or I’m falling apart at the age of twenty-three.
Everything in my life is a fragile decision that somebody else made.
I have to brush my teeth before I go on stage otherwise I don’t feel smart enough.
What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It’s a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack.
Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything.
He helped John Cusak get his girlfriend back.
You can sometimes get your own feelings across more strongly if you pretend that you’re singing it from someone else’s angle. But it’s always from me. It’s just a new way of framing it.
I personally really like getting a proper album with artwork and everything.
I have my moments – usually twice every album – when I basically lose it.
Abstract painting is dead. That’s why it has become so interesting again.
I could be walking down the street one minute and get a handshake and then get spat on the next. I’m never sure whether to wear gloves or a helmet.
If your wife went out with Brad Pitt, you’d want to prove yourself, you know what I mean?
I do an hour’s yoga and go running every day. Then I see a picture of myself and I still look like a skinny, potbellied idiot – and I thought I had turned into this superhunk!