You want to play in big games.

It's one of the reasons you play football, to make people happy.

If you are a player wanting to improve then Hibs will be a club you want to go to.

I feel loved at Hibs and I've loved my time here.

When I broke into the St Mirren team thing went pretty well for me and I managed to hit the ground running.

There are always challenges that come your way and I'm probably better prepared to deal with them now I've been at Hibs.

You always have to get your head down, work hard and things fall into place.

There's a lot of good midfielders all desperate to play for their country and all I can do when I get called up is prove that I deserve to be there.

I've got confidence in my ability.

Every time I've come away with Scotland I've learned and improved.

We do our best to keep our feet on the ground and that's how it will remain.

We need to go into every game believing we are going to win.

When you experience lows like I have it just makes you hungry to go and succeed even more, and make sure days like that don't happen as much as they have done.

Everyone just needs to be his own man.

If I could achieve half as much as Broony's achieved in his career, I'll be delighted.

I won't jump two-footed into something without really thinking about it.

I'm not your normal central midfielder.

I like to win the ball back for the team and I can contribute going forward.

If you try too hard to fit in you become something you are not.

It doesn't matter the level whether it is League Two or anywhere, you want to win games.

It's an amazing feeling playing at a packed-out Villa Park.

You dream as a player of having fans chanting your name.

When you live in hysteria, people start thinking emotionally.

There are a lot of actors who try to get records made and try to make record deals, and everybody goes, 'Ugh.' It used to be expected in the entertainment business. I mean look at Sinatra, Bing Crosby. All these guys started out as singers.

I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.

A lot of the time, I write in the third person, but I'm mostly describing my own ordeals. When those unsettled struggles prey on your mind, you become haunted. To get free, you must defeat your ghosts.

Take 'Jack and Diane.' I was so disgusted with people thinking the line 'Hold on to sixteen as long as you can' meant to stay a teenager forever. What I meant was keep doing whatever makes you feel alive.

If I laugh a couple of times a day, I'm doing good. People think it's their God-given right to be happy, and it's just not. It's something you've got to work at. I like to paint the human condition, and the human condition is not smiles and happy people.

You cannot expect the guy who drove the car into the ditch to navigate it out of the ditch. You have to put a new driver in the seat. I'm not saying the new driver is going to be any better, but we need a new driver. Kerry is the only choice.

I used to think that eating healthy was ordering a fish sandwich at McDonalds.

Hanging out is a waste of time. The only time I would hang out was when I was a kid, I would hang out in the streets. But once I started making records, I stopped hanging out.

The CD, it should be noted, was born out of greed. It was devised to prop up record sales on the expectation of people replenishing their record collections with CDs of albums they had already purchased.

'Crumbling' Down' is a very political song that I wrote with my childhood friend George Green. Reagan was president - he was deregulating everything, and the walls were crumbling down on the poor.

I need a long and lingering death to make sure that I have time to have a deathbed conversion.

My grandmother made sure that I went to church every Sunday. And she'd come over and pick us boys up, and we would go to the Nazarene church. And back then, that was about as close to heaven as I ever got, because just the time to be able to spend with her, and she was very, very religious.

For me to pretend I'm the keeper of the small town mentality or that's all I'm interested in is wrong.

Oh, I think country has changed tremendously. I think country has totally changed. Country music when I was a kid was Hank Williams. If you put Hank and Elvis together, there wasn't that musical difference. But as the Beatles showed up and the English invasion, I think country music got pretty far away from rock n' roll.

Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.

I wish my grandmother and grandfather were still alive, because they were able to keep me grounded.

Bob Dylan's first couple of records in the 60's weren't considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs on each album.

I wanted to study at the Art Students League in New York when I was young, but I didn't have the money. Then I was fortunate enough to become Johnny Cougar Mellencamp. At the time, I thought I'd make a couple of records and get back to painting. It never dawned on me that I'd be 64 years old and still making music.

If you hide information from people, don't want people to see the Ten Commandments or don't want people to hear about Darwin, aren't we hiding things that we know from our future generations? I just think that that's incorrect.

I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines.

'Jack & Diane' was originally about race. I was playing nightclubs, and I was seeing new American couples, mixed-race couples. I thought it was cool. The song was my effort to make a song about that, but of course the record-company guy didn't like it.

A lot of record company people, even though they're our age, want to be perceived as young hip guys, and they're hurting the business.

My task with 'Uh-Huh' was to make a more even record and get away from juvenile topics like 'Hurts So Good.' But I also knew if I wanted to continue, I had to have more hits.

I've seen beautiful art on the sides of buildings. I've seen beautiful art in museums. I've seen beautiful art in galleries. Beautiful art is everywhere.

Sound quality was supposed to be one of the big selling points for CDs but, as we know, it wasn't very good at all. It was just another con, a get-rich-quick scheme, a monumental hoax perpetrated on the music consuming public.

When did Jimmy Stewart not play Jimmy Stewart? When did John Wayne not play John Wayne? But that's what we like about them. When you talk about acting, you really have to respond to somebody's personality.

Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.