Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast.
If I was a fan of someone as a teenager, then it's OK for me to feel completely in awe when I meet them.
I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.
People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.
Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.
I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.
It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.
Maybe 'Can't Stop Feeling' and 'Turn It On' we'll just release as singles. It's a thing The Beatles used to do which I really loved, the idea of releasing something as a single completely on its own.
I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.
A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.
It's easy to be lazy when there's food lying around backstage or there's a fast-food joint a couple blocks away. But if you walk a little further, ask around a bit, of course there are exciting things to discover.
The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.
Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!
Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
Although they might not admit it, I think girls are very aware of the impact that they're having. But they never feel it themselves, and it's impossible to explain. It's like trying to tell a blind person what yellow is.
Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.
Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party.
You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.
The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
