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.

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.

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

We don't to be some kind of rock supergroup for the sake of being a supergroup. You want to change things and say something fresh and new so you appeal to people as a new group.

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.

Sarcasm is a Manchester trait.

There's a very fine line between being artistic and being a dickhead - it's like love and hate.