The Q Interview

'I'm writing better than I used to... My voice is fantastic... And my guitar playing is stupendous.... So I'm tellin' ya, this is an exclusive: I'm great!'

'The goal was never to make traditional period Japanese music. The goal was to try and make something that was singular to the world.'

The record was produced by Matt Squire, who made a name for himself with Panic! at the Disco's 2005 album 'A Fever You Can't Sweat Out.'

'Sometimes, not always, songs can have a cinematic sort of vibe, and sometimes it's fun to play around with that,' Kevin Bacon says.

'People who are into rock 'n' roll tend to think, well, classical music's not for me because it's too clever. But who's to say that rock music isn't just as clever? It's just clever in different ways. It's just as sophisticated, but in different ways.'

'My bandmates are very opinionated and very ornery and that's what makes our sound our sound. And I think that's a good thing.'

The new record includes a feature from Ice-T on the track 'Sucks 2 Suck.'

'I mean, William and I still scream at each other sometimes. We're brothers, for f--k's sake! It's bound to happen.'

'When you do what you believe in and you stick to your truth, after all the doors closing, one opens, and there are a few other people there, and suddenly there's a movement going on.'

'I've always liked the idea that a band could stand there and just make a noise and that some people will leave the room and other people stay and be like, wow, that's amazing!'

'It's just gonna be interesting to play rock and roll as an old person. Older person. As a person who's lived many years!'

'This is the record I've been trying to make my entire career,' Whibley tells Q. 'This is the finished painting.'

'I'm still healthy, and my voice is still working, and I can go out and tour, and I've got my studio, I can make new records. It's just a very fortunate position to be in.'

'Four strings is like the power of the cosmos. It conjures up something that shouldn't be possible, this immense weight, this power.'

'I can't really take any of my regrets very seriously. They don't matter. They're all part of the continuum, and all points are the same size on the continuum when you look back.'

'Formerly, if I'd changed gears artistically, I'd just start a new band...and then those bands would inevitably break up. Or go on hiatus. Or just stop releasing music.'

'Dennis Elliott got off his drum kit and just walked forward towards me and said, "I want HIM in the band!"'

'This here is what we do. John's playing out of his skin and I’m singing great, and it is what it is… It's not hard making music when you know what you're doing.' – Liam Gallagher

'I relinquished the notion that anything happens for a reason. I think we make meaning out of the things that happen. I think that's the human project.'

"I've been getting nasty letters ever since my second record, to which I replied in my mind, 'Well, if you think this is weird, you haven't seen anything yet!'"

The band's new LP is its first with Jack White's label Third Man Records.

'I still feel like a scrappy 22-year-old in a lot of ways.'

The NYC Cultural Agitators give the skinny on 'Art Punk', brand identity and why their new album is about 'having a crisis of faith in rock music and trying to redeem it at the same time.'

'I read the script, and then I re-read the script, and then I re-read the script again! I thought, "Boy, this is going a lot of different places!"'

'We embrace our strangeness, and we think certain aspects of unviability are a blessing.'

"To me, I feel like composing and playing music is like breathing. If I would stop playing, I would die, probably."

'People are ignorant of what it means to be transgender, and people are ignorant of what the real issue is when it comes to stupid things like f***ing bathrooms.'

'Gerard Way started as a musical theater nerd. Taylor Swift started as a musical theater nerd. We all start as musical theater nerds. That's just the natural state of artists.'

As Robbie Williams turns 50, we revisit a Q interview published shortly before his 25th birthday that showed a more troubled side to the self-proclaimed 'cheeky chappie'.

The artist formerly known as John Wesley Harding will also be continuing his ongoing series of Cabinet of Wonders shows throughout 2024.

'When we spoke to Jay about [returning to the band], he said, "I'd been getting signs from the universe that this was coming..."'

'You shouldn't be snobbish about how people consume your music. What you want is for people to love it.'

'We just want to do so many different things that sometimes it's hard to keep (listeners) on the same page,' Kaonashi frontman Peter Rono said.

The Scottish singer-songwriter hasn't ruled out anything for the future, not even further Danny Wilson recordings, if only he can find the time...

Ahead of the Stranglers' 50th anniversary tour, the legendary bassist reflects on a 'mentally challenging' back catalogue and the joy of sticking two fingers up to the detractors.

'The doctor told me not to (go on tour), but I've just been going full speed ahead regardless,' the vocalist said of her injury.

'I listened to the stuff when Miles and Coltrane were playing together, then I heard this and I was like, 'This is something else altogether!"'

The former Tsunami Bomb and Action Design singer explores a new direction with Survival Guide's 'Deathdreams.'