If you live in Birmingham, then being awake is not necessarily a desirable state.

Nothing useless can be truly beautiful.

Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the end. Not the money, not the music, not even the guns. That is my heroic flaw: my excess of civic pride.

I am not a piece of hash. I'm in charge of Factory Records. I think.

I've been a minor celebrity since I was 23 years old.

I'm a minor player in my own life story.

I’ll just say one word: Icarus. If you get it, great. If you don’t, that’s fine too. But you should probably read more.