Torquil Campbell

I don't like saying goodbye to people. I find it much easier to forgive people than to say goodbye to them, I…

— Torquil Campbell

Getting up on stage and being able to make people feel like their lives are slightly more special than they realize is…

— Torquil Campbell

I'm not an endings person. I don't do endings. There may have been people in the band who wanted this to be…

— Torquil Campbell

We're going to talk about the big things that matter, which are the little things, really. For me, Stars has always had…

— Torquil Campbell

We haven't really changed, we've just gotten better at executing what we've always been trying to do. We're not really a band…

— Torquil Campbell

Blind hope. Blind hope is all we have. There's a Greek tragedy called Prometheus Bound; Prometheus is the [titan] that gave humans…

— Torquil Campbell

I think if you listen to our records, they come at different points in your life. When people say to me that…

— Torquil Campbell

For all of my life, I've had this one song in my head, and I'm still trying to write it. I'm still…

— Torquil Campbell

That's the great thing about being in a band: it's a gang for people who are too wimpy to fight. You can…

— Torquil Campbell

I think people are naturally good, I see it every day. Look at this restaurant. No one's causing anybody any trouble in…

— Torquil Campbell

People are terrible. They do terrible things to each other, they hurt each other, they lie, they're vain, they're shallow, they're violent…

— Torquil Campbell

I consider being a performer work. I come from a theater family; I've been an actor all my life. I started acting…

— Torquil Campbell

When I see friends of mine break up and they're like, "Oh, we still really love each other, but we just couldn't…

— Torquil Campbell

I'm not confident about my appearance, I'm not confident about anything really in my life, I'm a very tortured soul when it…

— Torquil Campbell

I think you have to make concessions in life. One of the most frustrating things about getting older is [you realize] the…

— Torquil Campbell

My pledge to myself is I will believe in my music, always. I stand behind everything I do. If I don't think…

— Torquil Campbell

Acknowledging that we lose is the overarching theme in everything in Stars. To me, that's what punk means. Stars is a punk…

— Torquil Campbell

We became a band that was kind of a big band, kind of a band that quite uncool people listen to, people…

— Torquil Campbell

Your obstacles define your achievements, and without those obstacles, you're just another bland nothing.

— Torquil Campbell