Musician

I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the lyrics I sang.

I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.

I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess.

When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.

If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.

As much as we all love playing live, it's not normal to be on the road all the time, to have no home.

Being real is what is important.

For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity.

In a band that works out well, everybody has a certain role to fulfill.

Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new ones on the spot, that is what I called talented!

I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.

The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

Only the guys who never made it and will never make it in the U.S. need to put up the front that they don't care about America.

Any reaction is better than none.

Dub and reggae... I play that a lot around the house.

We recorded our first CD, Sixteen Stone, with a small budget and never dreamed that we would enjoy such a high success. It was simply fantastic.

I love what I'm doing most of the time, but it's hard work. People only see your albums in the charts. They see us at award shows and after-show parties. They don't know about your doubts, the hard work that goes in.

Lyrics are really important for me.

A happy wife is a happy life.

I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.