The charts are only relevant when you're top of them!

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

If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors.

I have to be myself, I can't be no one else.

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

Under Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod, great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very colourful and progressive.

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.