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

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

Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.

Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.

You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.

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