Every song that I play I wrote by myself.
Jack White has just done a song for Coca-Cola. End of. He ceases to be in the club. And he looks like Zorro on doughnuts.
Is it worth the aggravation to find yourself a job when there’s nothing worth working for?
Gold and silver and sunshine is rising up.
You can’t put a load of rockstars up on a stage and expect to wipe out global poverty. That’s ludicrous.
It’ll be nice to know that every gallon of petrol a Manchester United fan buys is going into our kitty.
Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He’s mad as custard.
I’m not technically proficient enough to attempt all kinds of music.
When you’re the cash cow that lays the golden goose egg, people are always going to cheer you on, whatever.
It’s not about being upset about the things you might have said or done yesterday, which is quite appropriate at the moment. It’s about looking forward rather than looking back. I hate people who look back on the past or talk about what might have been.
Music is a thing that changes people’s lives. It has the capacity to make young people’s lives better.
I’m a happy-go-lucky character. I’m not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world.
I’m a little bit of a control freak when it comes to my music, unfortunately.
I don’t have the genetic make-up of a frontman, but I’m learning how to do it.
Progression is going forwards. Going backwards is regression. Going sideways is just gression.
I’m used to people being a mile away. That suits me. It’s more nerve-wracking playing in front of people who are two feet away from me.
When you’re in a band and there’s five of you, you have to accommodate five people in every song.
I’m not interested in making money. It’s just that with my talent, I’m cursed with it.
I love the satisfaction of living in a world on a Wednesday where a song didn’t exist that you’re going to create on a Thursday that’s going to change somebody’s life, possibly, you’re creating that from nothing.
There’s nothing good on the news. You’re not telling me CNN is all cats in trees, are you? Nothing can be that good if Piers Morgan is in it, you know what I mean?