Nothing useless can be truly beautiful.

Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.

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

The special relationship between the region and a regional celebrity means that people feel that they have a special investment in you.

This is Manchester, we do things differently here.

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.

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