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"Off for a run to get ready for the 'lympics. Competing in the 110m mumble, the 50m yodel and the long distance face slap."

-Gary Lightbody (July 27, 2012)

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Landed in London. There seems to be some sort of sporting event taking place. Good luck to them I say. Horray sports!

-Gary Lightbody (July 26, 2012)

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"It was a good night of writing. I wrote about 10 songs and that was among it. When I listened back to them the next day, 9 songs were shit and 'Chasing Cars' shone out like a diamond...in the shit."

-Gary Lightbody recalling the time he wrote "Chasing Cars"

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"It's kind of become everybody's wedding song...it belongs to the collective consciousness now. That's an amazing thing, it's all you can really hope for for a song,"

-Gary Lightbody on "Chasing Cars"

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It's sort of ironic that supporting a band would make us feel comfortable being big, but they kind of lead the way by example on how to interact with a crowd. I was always reasonably good with talking to an audience, but I couldn't whip them up into a frenzy, not like Bono can. You kind of learn from him how to do that.

-Gary Lightbody

on being the support band for U2.

#bono #gary lightbody #u2 #irony #learning

"I think probably Lifening was the 'Eureka!' moment. Sitting with my Goddaughters [who] were playing in the studio...they were making me laugh and jumping around. Betsy (the eldest) was making up songs as she does, like little funny songs, and I was just laughing. And then it sort of struck me that this is the important stuff in life - having family and friends. It is feeling like you belong somewhere in the world and that you maybe don't desire as much as you used to desire. You actually start to want things that are important, rather than things that only fleetingly make you happy...[like] having money and drugs and guns. I had to sell all of my guns, not my drugs though."

-Gary Lightbody

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"I couldn't even write my name on a cheque. It was that bad at the time... (Stipe arriving at the studio) was amazing because the first song I ever played live was R.E.M.'s Find The River at a school concert. Michael just made a few suggestions here and there. On a track called New York there was a line, 'Your face has never left me.' He said, 'That sounds like you've got a girl's head in your bag.' So we changed that."

-Gary Lightbody

#gary lightbody #michael stipe #R.E.M.#New York #writing #writer's block #fallen empires

"In my dream last night I was a giant letter P looking for all the other letters to spell PAJAMAS. Not sure why. Seemed important at the time."

-Gary Lightbody (July 3, 2012)

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"Right! Off to the gym to eat a box of Cadbury's Cream Eggs."

-Gary Lightbody (July 14, 2012)

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"So the train rumbled on towards Oxford and the English countryside stretched out, as it does, in rolling blankets of green and I caught myself smiling a little smile and I raised my wee plastic glass of train wine to Philip Larkin, anonymity and to keeping it simple."

-Gary Lightbody

#gary lightbody #oxford #england #philip larkin #anonymity

Nathan, our guitar player, was walking back to his hotel and was stopped by two young girls. They asked him in their sweet and tiny Belfast trills (ahem) "Hoy, mate, who are you," "I'm Nathan," said our Nathan. They looked at one another a little crestfallen as if the name should have jogged a memory but didn't and one said in loud whisper, "Well he must be SOMEbody, he's wearing a hat." This is my point. We are not famous but our songs are.

-Gary Lightbody

#gary lightbody #Nathan Connolly #belfast #anonymity #snow patrol #Fame

"Recently our hometown of Belfast was struck down splendidly with MTV European music awards (EMAs) fever. The kids of Belfast were apoplectic with joy at the volume of stars they knew to be somewhere in their city: Gaga, Katy Perry, Rihanna, Coldplay and Justin Bieber among others. It was the kind of joy Belfast has never seen before. We were in city (a country) at war in the darkness for so many years and now with over a decade of peace under our belts the country has become a place of music and laughter and art and togetherness. It's a sight to behold and the world looked in on Belfast for the first time and saw the biggest, brightest party we ever had. But the Beiber Fever in particular. Well that was riotous. I witnessed kids chasing any car with tinted windows down the street and banging on the doors shouting Justin in the hope that the blacked out window would roll down and young prince Bieber would appear as if by magic and high-five them or flash them a smile, or marry them. I'm not sure those kids ever did find his car. I hope they did. And I hope he high-fived them."

-Gary Lightbody

#gary lightbody #justin beiber #belfast #EMA's #beiber fever

"So I thought about what we are known for. Not our rakish good looks and rapier wit, surely? Nor our lavish parties and celebrity pals. No, what we are known for is our songs. Many more people would know our songs than would even know the name of the band. And thank god for that. I wouldn't want it any other way. We can walk down any street in any city in the world without getting accosted. Without even anyone raising an eyebrow most of the time. And even when we're recognised it is generally a very passive affair. One may for example clock two folk nudging each other. One clearly saying the words 'is that the bloke from Snow Patrol' the other might even hazard a 'yeah.' The couple in question will then have a joint shrug, mouth the half word 'oh' to each other and then go on with their lives. You see we are not glamorous. We do not smack of the forbidden or the fantastical. We are not Lady Gaga. Wow, I'm not sure I have ever said something more obvious in my life."

-Gary Lightbody

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"I will not be an advocate for rock and roll over education. If I could have my schooling over again I'd throw myself into it more. Although that would mean no Snow Patrol. Wait, I'll get back to you on that. Put it this way, I have thought many times that I should go back to college and get a degree I feel I actually earned."

-Gary Lightbody

#gary lightbody #college #education #snow patrol #school

"God I hated rugby at school. Being as skinny as a broom handle and as formidable as a wisp of cotton candy sure didn't help. I recall being lifted by Graham Wallace straight up in the air by my ankles so that I flipped upside down in a heart beat and my face hit the ground hard, as I swung like a clanging, broken pendulum (Graham Wallace is now a policeman I believe. Go figure)."

-Gary Lightbody

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"No I was not built for rugby. But then, what was I built for? Love? Maybe. Love making? Alas no. Speed? Ha. Maybe in love making."

-Gary Lightbody

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"Given what's been all over the press lately, full disclosure: I keep all my money in a tree in Regents Park."

-Gary Lightbody (June 22, 2012)

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