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" We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world. "

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" When I'm doing music and I'm on the road, I love it. But once I'm home, it's very difficult to go back out on the road. "

" Kids and family life are only as good as your wife, and she's amazing. "

" Women have nine months more experience than you do - nine months to prepare for being a parent. "

" I'm against people downloading music. "

" I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity. "

" My wife would say I'm not romantic at all, but I would say that I'm the ultimate romancer because I write about... life being brilliant. "

" My kids have got to work themselves around my life, not the other way. That's how kids become brats, if you're there staring at them all the time going, 'Are you alright?' "

" There's no reason, ever, to be late. Or early. "

" I go into Daunt Books in Marylebone every couple of weeks. My wife Sara demolishes books, but I only buy stuff occasionally. I like boys' things, spies and the Cold War. "

" I've grown to love California: It's the dream of every English musician to come here and work in the sunshine. To walk up Sunset Boulevard, knowing you're going to make music - that's it. "

" People say I seem very negative about new music - well, if somebody asks me what I think of Keane, I'll tell 'em. I don't like 'em. I'll obviously take it a step too far and grossly insult the keyboard player's mam or summat, but I'm afraid that's just me. "

" I don't like being on television when I'm playing live. I don't even like being on Jools Holland or any of them programs. "

" I know there's bands that might write something that sounds like The Smiths, and they'll go, 'Oh, it sounds like The Smiths, we've got to make it sound not like The Smiths.' "

" I've always been into guitars... we want to put keyboards on, but keyboard players don't look cool onstage, they just keep their heads down. There has never been a cool keyboard player, apart from Elton John. "

" My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think. "

" I love the NFL. I don't have a team per se, but I'm into it. "

" There's nothing good on the news. You're not telling me CNN is all cats in trees, are you? Nothing can be that good if Piers Morgan is in it, you know what I mean? "

" To be quite honest, John Lennon had questionable politics. There was a flip side. He was all peace and love, but he was a very violent character. "

" Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He's mad as custard. "

" If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors. "

" I don't live to work; I work to live. "

" Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big. "

" You've just got to trust your instincts and realize that you can't please all the people all the time. You've got to please yourself ultimately in the end. "

" If I can give you any advice, it's this: every hour that you spend sat on the couch doing nothing, put it to good use, because when you have kids, an hour is like a lifetime. "

" You can't put a load of rockstars up on a stage and expect to wipe out global poverty. That's ludicrous. "

" Music is a thing that changes people's lives. It has the capacity to make young people's lives better. "

" There's not enough good things in the world. "