I'm a minor player in my own life story.
This is Manchester, we do things differently here.
I've been a minor celebrity since I was 23 years old.
The special relationship between the region and a regional celebrity means that people feel that they have a special investment in you.
I am not a piece of hash. I'm in charge of Factory Records. I think.
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.