6 Quotes by Ben Wilson

Re: Ian Bell becoming England captain I always thought it was customary for the England captain to lose form after he'd been named captain rather than before.

There had been decisions from higher-ups in the past to put more of a pop sound to our music. For this album, we very much wanted to say let's not focus on making better pop songs. Let's focus on what we dig because that pop stuff is going to be there. (Vocalist) John (Popper) writes those kinds of songs.

It was hard for them to fully accept me for the first couple of years. On the one hand, they told me, 'Bring everything you got.' On the other, there was a real editing process going on there. They were afraid of what keyboards might bring. They got a little nervous.

The conditions out there were dreadful so I suppose I should be grateful for the two points finishes this time. I am pleased for Scotty, it is a good result for both him and the team.

Dickens became one of the greatest interpreters of urban life because he was a prodigious walker; his visceral encounters with the physical and human cityscape run through all his work. Urban literature is bound up with walking, because walking takes you away from the familiar, down “long perplexing lanes untrod before,” as John Gay put it in his 1716 poem “Trivia; or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London.

All adolescents want to escape from home into the world, not vice versa as adults do. The suburbs naturally mark a front line of conflict between teenagers and parents, a clash of values and aspirations.