The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set out to do that. We just wanted to be as big as we possibly could be.

In a strange kind of way I know were really popular and probably the biggest band in the country at the moment, but at the same time there is this real cult thing going on.

The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set out to do that. We just wanted to be as big as we possibly could be.

I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the exposure they deserve, especially when they travel so far to play the smallest gig they've ever played in their lives.

We've got a long career ahead of us and it's going to be great. Trust me.

When I need to nail that riff to the cross, Marshall will always provide the hammer!

As far as the live shows go, we're not leapfrogging all the smaller venues. We would have bypassed these kind of shows and gone straight to the Arena shows, but we didn't want to.

When we started off it was all nervous energy and we probably played everything twice as fast as we do now.

You can muck around with different guitars for certain bits, but you have to have your own sound. That's your benchmark, that's your sound. I also play a Black Beauty. It sounds amazing.

I can't wait until we get to the stage where we don't have to explain anymore.

I think we raised about 20,000 pounds. There was a live performance thing so we thought we'd donate the equipment for an online charity in Britain. I hated to part with my guitar, but it was for such a great cause.

After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.

You have to keep going. The main attention is for us to stay alive and stay a band. You only really become very successful when you stick together. Just keep going and reaching bigger and better.

We've had a number 1 album in the UK and that was a really big thing for me. So now all we've got to do is do it in America and that will have the domino effect of doing it across the rest of the world.

My favorite is still the one that I started off with, which is a Les Paul Standard. I've played that at every gig I've ever had. And that's my starting point in the studio.

I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It made life a lot easier knowing what I was aiming for.

Loads of computer graphics equals a terrible video in my book.

We still haven't played Madison Square Garden. That's a benchmark. Something will have gone seriously wrong if we don't play Madison Square Garden for this album.

We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends, and one enemy we've always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music.

There's a lot of people out there who have seen us once somewhere in a pub or heard our songs late night on radio. We'd done four years of it before we'd even released a single. It's put us in good stead.

I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.

The tree leaves rustled like that noise e-books make when you turn the page.

There are none so blind as those, that will not see

Some people just seem like they are up to no good. Like, in high school, I was a good student and got straight As. It was very strict, and you couldn't do well there unless you studied very hard, but every time there was any trouble, I was the first person they would be talking to.

The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.

I like to control the risk I take. And when risk is taken out of my hands, it frustrates me.

I get to play a scorching lead guitar, and there's not much that's more fun than that.

The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists.

If Israel sees weapons moving toward its border, it acts.

I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.

As well as writing novels and doing short-order journalism, I am also the full-time carer of my husband, who has Alzheimer's. Each day feels like a race that must be run.

If poly A is added to poly U, to form a double or triple helix, the combination is inactive.

I always adhered to the idea that God is time, or at least that His spirit is.

Massages are my favorite. Sometimes just getting myself outside for a walk if I'm really busy can be an indulgence. I love taking naps. I love to stay up too late with close friends. I believe in everything in moderation. I take what I like and leave what I don't.

I went to study at Oxford University in the 1980s on an imperial scholarship instituted by Cecil Rhodes.

I'm not short,' Daisy muttered. 'Short women are never mysterious, or elegant, or pursued by handsome men. And they're always treated like children. I refuse to be short.

It is said that blood is thicker than water. It is what joins us binds us curses us.

I wear Aveda Energizing oil. I am big into aromatherapy.

Love of glory can only create a great hero contempt of glory creates a great man.

If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support... autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice.

Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person.

Politicians really worry about being politically correct.

Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.

I am tired of being in an industry that doesn't appreciate me.

In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.