I'm not technically proficient enough to attempt all kinds of music.

I do all the work so it's only right that I should get the most money. Plus I am the most handsome.

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

Every song that I play I wrote by myself.

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.

Writing songs, that's what gets me going. Not the drugs or the sex or the rock'n'roll behaviour, it's the music.

I'm embarrassed when I see Brits abroad; they have their tops off, wear flip flops, and shout at the top of their voices.