There's something really powerful when I, for example, hear Bob Marley's 'Exodus' - we know where we're going. We know where we're from.
I was a really crazy kid. I'm still a crazy kid. That's the nice thing about being in a rock band. You can feel 14 forever.
If you do a story about a British journalist rescuing a child from Sarajevo, then Sarajevo just becomes an exotic location, and the story's about this British journalist.
I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi.
I get most of my inspiration from older records and older production styles, and that ends up rearing its head in the records that I make.
I grew up with lots of animals and I related more to them than I did to people. I feel a lot of empathy for them.
I'm channelling my 14-year-old self. She's thinking about putting on her big hoop earrings and baggy pants and going to the mall downtown.
Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big.
I'm used to people being a mile away. That suits me. It's more nerve-wracking playing in front of people who are two feet away from me.
Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from one song to another.
You can't really write a full album about your missus. She'll start getting the wrong idea and start thinking I like her.
In '85, I went through rehab and I wasn't ready. If you're not ready, you're not ready. You don't want to hear the truth, and you're gonna keep doing what you keep doing.
Despite all of our efforts to control something, the world is much, much more powerful than us, and more deranged even than us.
Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person.
I've never had any problem with crazy people. I like crazy people; I probably am a crazy person myself.
I've been writing a lot more, I believe, because of the Internet. I've been posting stuff that I've written and I've just been writing.
A lot of stories that have fascinated me are tabloid stories that have come from other newspapers, like 'The New York Times.'
I believe it was probably less than ten minutes that went by from the invention of photography to the point where people realized that they could lie with photographs.
We all know that yellow journalism didn't just happen a week ago or a month ago, that yellow journalism has probably been with us as long as journalism has been with us.
My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
What is beautiful enchants me. I mean not just physical beauty but a wider concept of beauty. There is beauty in poetry and in great musical or singing performances. There is beauty everywhere if you can just see it.
