41 Quotes by Jamie Hince

I squatted for most of my adult life. I'm not condoning squatting; it was just the only way I could do what I wanted to do. I didn't have, you know, a trust fund or parents that could help out.

It feels like being in a band is a luxury now: like you can only do it if you're signed really early or you come from a wealthy family.

Privacy has become the most precious thing. Things have got more cryptic in my writing.

In high school, I listened to The Jam, stuff like that, a lot of English bands, really. And then I got into anarcho-punk bands that nobody had heard of.

I loved all that riot-grrl scene and Nation of Ulysses and Bikini Kill and Huggy Bear. I loved it. It was the moment sort of first growing up where bands had stopped looking like roadies.

Sometimes not playing music for a day is much more beneficial than playing every day for ten hours.

I feel some allegiance to pushing electric-guitar music into a different realm, somewhere that isn't retrospective. There's a lot of guitar bands that are a tribute to the 1970s or the Nineties. I want to experiment with guitar music more.

I'm a guitar player. I've carved out my own style of guitar music, so I don't look for inspiration with playing guitar.

I love when a song is conceived as a jigsaw puzzle in the studio, and then it's a natural to play live. That's my gauge of success for a song.