Mainly, I don't like it when music is made solely to impress people or in order to please business people; it doesn't sound good to me. If you're making music in order to become famous or loved by the masses... that's not what I'm about. When somebody's making music for the wrong reasons, I hear it right away.

I don’t want to be on the radio. I don’t want to be on Mtv.

You know this moment in time Is all my life Every day is each day that’s passed Every person alive is everyone’s who’s died.

Everything’s very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there’s lots of good things.

I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there’s been points in my life when they weren’t around, and it’s a real sort of miserable existence.

Pagers are my life – I try to get them in to our music as much as possible.

For me, living and making music, they’re one thing. It’s not like a job that I go to a studio to do, or a chore that I have to get myself in the mood to do, or something. It’s the thing that I need to do every day.

And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I’m doing a clearer representation of the thing that I’ve been feeling inside me since I was four years old.

But for me if I’m gonna read about something I’d rather read a pamphlet or the instructions to a synthesizer than a book on Buddhism.

Making art is about accepting what’s going on around you and turning it into.