Music Quotes

If fidelity really mattered, 'Loveless' wouldn't be one of the best records of all time.

I know I am pretentious, but I'd be the first person to tell you that. And I'm not apologising, because I'm bored of indie bands that are terrified of doing anything that could be perceived as aspirational, so they don't affect the status quo of their little cliquey band world.

Music is for people who can't handle their own thoughts.

There was never a jostling for position about who was going to lead the band. The guys believe me, we love each other, they trust me and I trust them. They trust in me to know what I'm doing.

I like my men like I like my coffee - full of soy milk and so sweet they won't offend anybody.

What people really want is remarkable stuff that doesn't require a lot of technology.

There are so many self-references - it's always me in the songs talking about being in the song, like a character in a film that knows he's a character in a film.

The Seed Sounds Weekender is a vital reminder that music doesn't start in boardrooms or big arenas; it starts in back rooms, pubs, basements, and independent spaces run on love, grit, and belief in something bigger.

The erosion of funding for seed and grassroots spaces is part of a wider liberal tendency to strip away the socially democratic infrastructure that actually makes art possible.

The goal is something that sounds like a cover.

I want my records to represent who I am, and I'm so fucking many things. And I also never wanna do anything that feels humble, because that would be performative.

Anyone can make something with technology, but we've been a band for 20 years-it isn't algorithmic.

George is one of the best drummers in the world, play the fucking drums! Hann fucking rips on the guitar, so rip on the guitar!

Songs like 'Radioactive' by Imagine Dragons, it might as well be called 'Pikachu Banana.' It's nothingness.

I thought we were fighting, but it seems I was 'gaslighting' you. I didn't know that it had its own word.

People may think that it's 'uncool' to work with the biggest producer in the world-I don't give a fuck.

I fucking hate Metallica. My worst band of all time.

I've thought about every single word on this album for two years; I'd think about a tweet for 20 seconds. My album's gonna go out to, what, 10 million people, but a tweet could go out to a billion. The maths doesn't work out. I'll die on the hill of my records, but I won't die on the hill of my tweets. It's better to say good things less than to say average things more.

Sorry I did not link my song in that tweet to make it about me it's just that the song is literally about this disgusting situation and speaks more eloquently than I can on Twitter.

But on this record, I said, 'Instead of a magnum opus, what about more like a polaroid?