The amount of women we've met that say that we were an inspiration to them growing up, has always been one of the best things about being in the band.

Women shouldn't have to apologise for their age or growing old. It is just inevitable.

The perfect pop song is about creating a memory.

Pop music is a constant reminder of what you were doing at the time, it holds all sorts of memories.

Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.

I was talking recently with a friend of mine who's determined to never meet her heroes, and I have another friend who's been horribly disillusioned a couple of times. But I've had a wonderful ride with meeting people who have been my North Stars, and Bowie's definitely one of them. He feels like my cousin; like the cousin I never had.

It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.

People have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work.