Do you ever look at the sky and think, I'm glad I'm alive? After I heard System of a Down, I thought, I'm actually alive to hear the shittiest band of all time. Which is quite something when you think about it. Of all the bands that have gone before and all the bands that'll be in the future, I was around when the worst was around.

Fame is something that is bestowed upon you because of success. Success is something you have to chase.

Look. I was a superhero in the '90s. I said so at the time. McCartney, Weller, Townshend, Richards, my first album's better than all their first albums. Even they'd admit that.

I think the fact that Sir Alex Ferguson rested Howard Webb had a lot to do with the result.

I'm not interested in making money. It's just that with my talent, I'm cursed with it.

Those who don't say what they mean will live and die by their own sword.

I don't like being on television when I'm playing live. I don't even like being on Jools Holland or any of them programs.