There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity.

Nothing useless can be truly beautiful.

When forced to pick between truth and legend, print the legend.

Every band needs it's own special chemistry. And Bez was a very good chemist.

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.

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.

There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity.