I think the most important thing about what musicians do is the music. You can be as big an arsehole as you want but if you're not making good music, you won't get away with it.

I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism.

I suppose in the end it's almost too easy to look back and say what you should have done, how you might have changed things. What's harder - what's much, much harder - is to accept what you actually did do.

Sarcasm is a Manchester trait.

Nobody is the same. If we were all the same it would be bloody boring.

The fact is that you don't want to be away forever, but you want to lead a normal life.

America stopped making vinyl and phased out the single but Germany held out and refused. Warner's never phased out vinyl in Germany. Now America imports it!