Matt: (about the first love of his life)My babysitter. She saved my life when I was choking once and after that I loved her.
Tom Kirk: (about the band's success) The belief was always there, the confidence, the ability and the desire to get to where they are today.
Matt: We had just discovered something: music is a matter of emotion.
Chris Wolstenholme: (about the Mercury Prize) It's a big industry thing. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with the public. It seems like a pointless thing. It's an excuse for the record companies to get together and kiss each other's arses.
Dominic Howard: Love is something that makes you smile whenever they are there, it makes you happy and gives you the feeling of contentment. It's about giving without wanting to get anything back. That's the most basic way of explaining it, when you get pleasure from giving yourself and your time to another person, expressing things and expressing another side to you that no one else knows. It's when you can talk about anything, like your worst fears - you can be truly open in a way that you can't be with anyone else.
Matt: I think I'm crap. I'm a crap guitar player. I'm really not very good. And I thought I was a good singer until I met Coldplay. That guy's got a real voice. He can sing.
Dominic Howard: Most of our first gigs were in typical Devon pubs where you just go and sit down with a drink and watch VH-1 on the telly. They really didn't want to see a band. All they wanted was a quiet pint and we were in the corner just making a racket...
Matthew Bellamy: Absolution is an album about relationships between you and the other things, whether its you and God, or you and your girlfriend.
Matthew started playing piano at 6, but the absence of his parents turned him towards the guitar when he was 14.
Matthew’s dad, George Bellamy, was in a band called The Tornadoes, who were the first band from the UK to get a US number 1 record.
Micro Cuts is the Muse song with the highest vocal note: A♭7.
Matt had to leave the stage once during a gig because he had to use the toilet. This confused the crowd and force Chris and Dom to do a jam session.
Muse's previous names were Carnage Mayhem, Youngblood, Gothic Plague, Fixed Penalty and Rocket Baby Dolls.
Matt's vocal cords are unusually small, allowing him to have such a high range.
Dom does not like playing 'Knights of Cydonia' at the end of the set because it leaves him 'knackered'.
Dom's previous jobs were a school canteen assistant and a factory worker packing Spice Girls T-shirts.
Matt Bellamy uses Manson Guitars built and customized by Hugh Manson.
Chris Wolstenhome is married and has four children. He lost his wedding ring at a gig in Japan, but a fan returned it, and got a lifetime supply of Muse gigs.
Dom was injured on three different occasions when Matt threw a guitar at him.
Musical discography: Showbiz (1999), 12 tracks + 1 track for Japanese release.
Dominic Howard's favorite cheese is Brie.
Muse sued Nescafe for $500,000 because they used their version of the song "Feeling Good" in a commercial without their permission. They won the case and donated the money to Oxfam.
Muse are one of the three headlining bands for the 2006 Carling Reading and Leeds festivals. The other two bands headlining are Pearl Jam and Franz Ferdinand
Muse lead the nominations for 2006 Kerrang! Awards, featuring in five categories. Those being best live band, best single (Supermassive Blackhole), best album (Blackholes and Revelations), best video (Supermassive Blackhole) and best British band.
Showbiz hit #1 in the UK, Origin of Symmetry UK#3, Hullabaloo UK#10, Absolution UK#1, US#107, AUSTRALIA#22.
Musical discography: Black Holes and Revelations (2006), 12 tracks
Musical discography: Hullabaloo Soundtrack (2002), 20 tracks
Black Holes & Revelations is the second album by Muse to enter at #1 in the UK album chart, the first being Absolution in 2003.
Muse released their fifth studio album on Monday 3rd July 2006 entitled "Black Holes & Revelations", which includes their #4 positioned UK chart hit "Supermassive Black Hole".
Matt, Chris, and Dom's first choice name for the band was 'Gothic Plague'.
According to the drummer Dominic Howard, the band used llama toenails as an instrument in the song "Screenager".
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