You have to make the effort with children. You can't have them thinking that I reckon I'm special, otherwise they'll start thinking they're special. I want them to feel normal for as long as possible because God knows they'll reach an age when they'll be told they're not.

I remember the 70s constantly being winter in Manchester and the Irish community in Manchester closing ranks because of the IRA bombings in Birmingham and Manchester, and you know the bin-workers' strike, all wrapped up in it... They were violent times. Violence at home and violence at football matches.

There's not enough good things in the world.

I don't have the genetic make-up of a frontman, but I'm learning how to do it.

I did drugs for 18 years and I never got that bad as to say, 'You know what? I think the Kaiser Chiefs are brilliant.'

I don't fall into the category of tortured artist. But it's not made me more or less anything.

We like annoying people. It's a Manchester thing. It's a trait. We just like pissing people off.