41 Quotes by Jamie Hince

When I like something, I wear it into the ground, then really regret it.

I'm probably quite practical when I'm on stage. I start off with a leather jacket, and then get too hot and take it off. I don't think too much about it.

There are a lot of things about Russian culture, art, music, photography and literature that I'm love with.

Generally, my life is absolute chaos, but when I'm writing songs, it's very thought out and regimented.

I don't feel like the album format is sacred anymore, and things have got to change. I don't listen to music in terms of albums anymore. I've got a short attention span.

I get excited by being in the studio and could never get burnt out in there.

Being in a band is not about reality - it's a bit of a fantasy. I can't go on stage as my ordinary self and just play - I've got to become my 'superhuman self.'

One of the things I discovered about myself is I'm just really positive.

I saw a picture of a girl using an eyelash curler when I was a kid, and I thought it was some sort of torture device, the eye guillotine.