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

When you're the cash cow that lays the golden goose egg, people are always going to cheer you on, whatever.

Drugs is like getting up and having a cup of tea in the morning.

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.

My wife would say I'm not romantic at all, but I would say that I'm the ultimate romancer because I write about... life being brilliant.

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

It's not about being upset about the things you might have said or done yesterday, which is quite appropriate at the moment. It's about looking forward rather than looking back. I hate people who look back on the past or talk about what might have been.