“We’ll show the fire how to burn.”

I think music piracy is forcing many people to look at the live aspect of the record industry as an income and in many ways that’s what sets apart good music and musicians from the fly by night pop sensations.

My motive has always been just to be who I am, and play what I love- if that doesn’t get me anywhere then at least it wasn’t because I tried to be something I’m not.

What I love about the tours is the day to dayness of it all.. you meet so many people and travel so much in such a short period of time and it’s always so concentrated and focused that it stops you thinking beyond the box too much. I love things that absorb you completely.

I like to think illegal downloads only do real damage to the endless amounts of careless pop music though.

I love playing music – and live especially – and I love being on the road. It gets in your blood.

I like to believe a true fan of music or an artist has a genuine respect for what the artist does and has a distinct understanding of their actions. In that buying an album they are helping the artist to continue making music. It’s hard because everyone wants something to be free.

If I wasn’t a musician… I think I’d just be endlessly traveling.

Keep your head up, keep your heart strong. Keep your mind set, keep your hair long.

I’ve been worryin’ that we all, live our lives, in the confines of fear

The best thing is I can say ‘I’m working’ when I’m having a cup of tea and a cigarette and fiddling on the guitar.

Miss is scarce three years old, but she’s spoke to every day to hide her leg, and rebuked in good earnest if she shows it; whilst little Master at the same age is bid to take up his coats, and piss like a man.

Journalists love to show their compassion.

A lot of people say the sitcom is dead. I think they’re right to some extent, in that the shows they’re putting out are all the same.

If I switch showrunners and I get to stay on the show, I approach it like it’s their show, and I’m here to write their music for them.

Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see.

I was raised in the theater and, as it turned out, a TV show was like performing a new one-act play. So, it was really no different.

We figured you could download live shows for days, so we decided to go for a cream-of-the-crop approach, but not just take the best vocal or the best performances.

When I open many books, or most leading women’s magazines, or see almost all TV shows, I don’t find myself at all. I am completely anonymous. My value system is not there.