Jake Bugg Quotes

As good as I am, I'm nothing without my band.

We have different personalities and different skills and the kind of things that we do, we can do together that neither of us can do separately. We've been working together so closely that it's kind of hard to decide what's my work and what's her work, it's ours really.

Every great team has multiple backs. Very few times do you have just one back.

Collaboration is something I missed at one point in The Shins. I really wanted to have that experience again, you know, not having everything rely on me. I wanted to have a partner.

It's important for the team not to be relying on one player.

When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone - it's possible. But creatively, it's more like painting: you can't just use the same colours in every painting. It's just not an option. You can't take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.

It just doesn't work without the others.

I know, for myself, I probably work a lot better in that - in the group environment. Only because if I am coming up short, someone else helps.

Each time I look at my members, I rely on them to act as a driving force that I can always lean on for support. Because we're in this together, we do rely on each other, and power through.

There's no question about it: the best theatre is collaboration. The best anything is collaboration.

My wife and I make an awesome tag team.

Joel Little and I have this certain chemistry we have when we work together.

If you do not have the team behind you, then you can't do things on your own. It all depends on the team.

The dogs and I are a single thing, and thus we share our interests. With them, I'm bigger and better than I am without them, and vice versa.

The reward of a successful collaboration is a thing that cannot be produced by either of the parties working alone. It is akin to the benefits of sex with a partner, as opposed to masturbation. The latter is fun, but you show me anyone who has gotten a baby from playing with him or herself, and I'll show you an ugly baby, with just a whole bunch of knuckles.

It would be fun to write with Adele, actually. She seems like a fun girl to write with.

One man is not enough.

Kevin and Annette... I wanted them to do it together. They clearly wanted to work with each other.

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.

The only thing is we didn't have the supporting cast.

It's a rare thing to find somebody you can work with, work off of, and have fun with.

Everything's a lot easier when you work with someone you know just about as well as you know yourself.

A lot of times, working in stand up, you're by yourself, and so you just have to rely on yourself only... but I like working in an ensemble.

You're only as good as the sum of your parts, and one person can't be a team.