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Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!
Boho to me is a first-year student who's just discovered the tie-dye shop.
Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.
Cinema, which is influenced by every single part of life, is direct and reaches you immediately. And writing - the best writing is complex ideas communicated concisely. And music - if it's a good tune, make sure people can bloody hear it.
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.
I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.
I really want it to have an impact on the world. I want to be in a town on the other side of the world, and somebody walks up and says, 'That music you made in Glasgow, I listened to it every day, and it moved me.'
I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.
I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.
Ideally, musicians belong outside the Establishment. When they cross that line, it's like something in them has died.
If I was a fan of someone as a teenager, then it's OK for me to feel completely in awe when I meet them.
If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.
It's easy to be lazy when there's food lying around backstage or there's a fast-food joint a couple blocks away. But if you walk a little further, ask around a bit, of course there are exciting things to discover.
It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party.
Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.
No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you.
Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.
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