Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!

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.

Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.

[But even with two Englishmen in the band, McCarthy and Hardy, they remain loyal to Glasgow.] We definitely see ourselves as a Glasgow band above anything else, ... It's not a massive place, but one of the great and inspiring things about Glasgow is you have all these characters who did things and they did them their own way, and they're still there and they kind of like say: 'You know, if we did it this way, you can probably do it as well.'

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.