44 Quotes by Ed O'Brien

He's the head. When you cut the head off, the rest of the team struggles.

Music, at the end of the day, is communicating something – emotion, a feeling, a rite of passage, where you are in life.

What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the same – regular people doing their thing and separating the music from the business.

It’s really weird to be playing chords again. Haven’t played chords for a long time. I realised I haven’t played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that.

At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn’t right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn’t feel right.

Not in the mornings, I’m always so tired in the morning.

So we are not doing the traditional album, tour, album, tour, album, tour anymore. We’re going to tour when we want to, regardless of whether we’ve got a record out.

I don’t read the press, I don’t watch endless music TV.

There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special things happen. Ireland, for example. I’ve always felt it’s interesting to play there. Maybe they just drink more than anybody else.