I've been a minor celebrity since I was 23 years old.
There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity.
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'm a minor player in my own life story.
When forced to pick between truth and legend, print the legend.
The special relationship between the region and a regional celebrity means that people feel that they have a special investment in you.