- It doesn't take much for a band to sing a few songs and help bringing awareness that'll help suffering in the world. Long live rock'n'roll! - when performing at Live 8 -
- Fame is a game you can choose not to play. There's many ways in and out of a building. If you wanna go to the Met Bar and get pissed, well, you don't have to stagger out the front door where all the cameras are waiting. Some people focus on that game, and other people just focus on what they do. To me, personally, I'd rather have the pressure of making a good record than the pressure of living up to a persona that doesn't exist.
- Having an interview is an unnatural process. For me to actually explain my whole life to you in a single conversation: how am I supposed to do that? All I can do is give you a little snapshot of how I feel in this half hour on this day. And you go away and write whatever you want and I've gotta live with that. It's an impossible situation. I can't win.
- It's always been about the songs, for me. You can have a two-note melody that can make you cry: it's as simple as that but it's also as complicated as that.
- Most records made today sound like one song from beginning to end. There's a lot of different moods and changes throughout this record [You Gotta Go There To Come Back]. Every few bars, when your brain's saying, 'Have you heard that now', I wanted to put something new in there.
- The songwriting has changed because as a person you change. It's been an emotional rollercoaster these last two years, whether it be divorce, sex, drink, drugs, arguments, whatever it might be, I can only write about what I'm experiencing. Life is about making mistakes and learning from them, learning about yourself and becoming a better person. That's what the title of the album [You Gotta Go There To Come Back] basically means.
- [on "You Gotta Go There To Come Back"] I wanted to create a record that was very raw, very spontaneous but had loads of detail and textures and layers. We pushed ourselves in many places we've never been before.
- [describing writing in terms of therapeutic release] To hold all these different thoughts and emotions in your head without expressing them, then you're gonna blow up. Somehow, you've gotta have a place to put whatever it is that is boiling around inside you.
- My biggest fear is running out of time before finishing everything I want to do.
- How many people do you know wake up in the morning with job satisfaction? For us it's not even a job. You get to fly around the world, play some shows, meet loads of different people who teach you lots of things and you have a ball with your best friends. [And the critics?] They can go fuck themselves.
- [Stereophonics deciding against releasing a trilogy of albums] We'd thought we'd be the first, then Green Day announced Uno, Dos and Tre. They didn't do that well but they'd have had more of a chance if Billie Joe Armstrong (who had checked into rehab after suffering a meltdown) had been around to play more concerts. Then again, you can't absorb 30 songs at once. That's why we're giving people 45 minutes' worth for now (with the new record) but hopefully we'll have another album out within a year.
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