Grant-Lee Phillips

I don't know how other bands play the same songs every night.

I've made a few albums in such an autonomous way; it often has been exhausting. It's almost difficult to enjoy the process when you take on so much.

There's nothing more painful than something that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of tell behind it that there's a cynicism, or even a bitterness.

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

I don't think they're going to pay me to play Mufasa.