You might walk around and find a nice restaurant. Then you return to the hotel. Then you go to a monument. Then you find that at the monument that you can point to where the restaurant is.

A bee is two and half centimeters long with a brain the size of a large peppercorn. Yet they can fly 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) away from the hive to forage and then make a straight line home. How do they do that?

We have huge brains and we can't do these things.

I'm fascinated by fire. When I was four, I wore an American fireman's hat all the time, and I still have one in my office today. Glasgow used to be called 'Tinderbox City;' there were always fires, people getting killed.

For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.

I lived through a golden period where society felt that it was good to help people who didn't have a great deal of money fulfil their potential.