The Smiths are never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever going to reunite - ever.

I see myself rather like an old discarded dishrag.

Yes I have had a tan, actually. I went to Los Angeles and got one there, but it didn't make it back to Britain. You're not allowed to come through customs with a tan.

I was never young. This idea of fun: cars, girls, saturday night, bottle of wine... to me, these things are morbid. I was always attracted to people with the same problems as me. It doesn't help when most of them are dead.

I am still my teenage self. If you think that we all step through a door marked Adult, or that we sign a Grown-Up Document, you’re quite wrong. We remain as we always were, and that, alas, is one of life’s many nasty tricks.

Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve?

I'd rather produce art than become art.