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

"A happy wife is a happy life."

"Being real is what is important."

"The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich."

"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."

"As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there."

"It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not."

"I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like Johnny Rotten. I had a jacket like his."

"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 always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others."

"I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think."

"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 love seeing the fans of the music that I make."

"Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration."

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

"For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive."

"Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting."

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

"The Beatles, the Small Faces and the Kinks were great bands, but that was in the '60s."

"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 love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience."

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

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

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

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

"I think it's pretty normal that there are a lot of people out there who don't like us."

"I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine."

"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."

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

"I am really addicted to music."

"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."