"I wasn't in a position to defend myself. Sometimes it's a brutal profession. The first thing I thought of at the time was revenge. I have a more levelheaded take on the issue today."

“My effectiveness is best placed in solving problems through federal solutions.”

“And if that weren't bad enough, the next sound he heard was a loud click. The damned woman had locked him out. She'd taken all the food and locked him out. "You'll pay for this!" he yelled at the door. "Do be quiet," came the muffled reply. "I'm eating.”

“It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.”

“So often, when you're playing the lead in your own show, it is all about you.”

“I got to play with ZZ Top and introduce Bryan Adams and George Michael. And to have it all topped off by me winning 'American Idol?!' It's pretty absurd.”

“The easier you can make it inside your head, the easier it will make things outside your head.”

“Basically, we've learned to delegate. We just grew tired of becoming too psychotic and straining to make the records ourselves.”

Source : "Belle and Sebastian". Interview with Gretta Cohn, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2006.

“The older you get, the more voices you get in the back of your head.”

Source : Robert Jackson Bennett (2013). “American Elsewhere”, p.359, Hachette UK