In business, you can have one massive success that earns $50 million overnight, and that's it. You're successful. End of story. But in the music business, you have to keep on doing it.

Chart positions are for people with manbags who get to work at 11 A.M. because they've been at a digital meeting.

The thing about Manchester is...it all comes from here

Great music is in the ear of the beholder.

Kids and family life are only as good as your wife, and she's amazing.

The thing about bands is everybody wants to be the next Oasis, and that doesn't mean slogging it out around the toilet [gigs], it means, "Give me the check, I need to go to the Levis shop and I need a 1960s Gibson."

It is hard to be modest at times like these so I won't even try...you are all shite!