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I'm a massive fan of the Stones, and I don't think anybody should deny them the right to carry on making music. I just wish they wouldn't wear leggings.
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I don't like John Terry and I never have. He's got funny eyes and he's a cry baby. He's also a Cockney.
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I can make going to the dry-cleaners last an entire day, and the dry cleaners might be 150 yards from my front door. You might find it hard to believe, but I am bone-idle lazy.
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Every song that I play I wrote by myself.
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Next year I hope to get a stalker or two because I don't believe you've arrived until you get a stalker.
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I know there's bands that might write something that sounds like The Smiths, and they'll go, 'Oh, it sounds like The Smiths, we've got to make it sound not like The Smiths.'
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I started off as many fathers do. I enjoyed the good bits, but I was wary of the responsibility. But now I love being a dad.
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If I ever get to go to the moon, I'll probably just stand on the moon and go 'Hmmm, yeah...fair enough...gotta go home now.'
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I don't much like 'Wonderwall,' but the effect that song has on people, I can't deny it.
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None of us went to university, none of us went to college, none of us played in a different band before, none of us done anything. We were the last great band to come out of nowhere, on an indie label. We've sold 50 million records. That's still the benchmark. Until someone does what we've done, I'll always consider myself the last big songwriter.
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As I get older, I don't aggressively pursue songs. All the great ones just appear.
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I love the NFL. I don't have a team per se, but I'm into it.
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Anything that's of any use, famous people get hold of it and take it for themselves and it gets a bad rap.
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People say I seem very negative about new music - well, if somebody asks me what I think of Keane, I'll tell 'em. I don't like 'em. I'll obviously take it a step too far and grossly insult the keyboard player's mam or summat, but I'm afraid that's just me.
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I'm not technically proficient enough to attempt all kinds of music.
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I'm going to get drunk and insult as many musicians from the 80's as is humanly possible.
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I absolutely loved being famous. It was all great, up until the point when it wasn't.
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The scumbags are taking over the streets. I don't know what David Cameron and Gordon Brown are going to do about it. It all goes back to the Thatcher (Margaret Thatcher) years. It sounds like a cliché but that's when the rot set in.
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I'm equal part genius, equal part buffoon.
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Traditionally speaking, the three biggest twats in any band are the singer, the keyboardist and the drummer. I don't need to say anything else.
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I'm a great songwriter, but I'm not the most talented musician.
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I think the fact that Sir Alex Ferguson rested Howard Webb had a lot to do with the result.
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Under Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod, great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very colourful and progressive.
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In business, you can have one massive success that earns $50 million overnight, and that's it. You're successful. End of story. But in the music business, you have to keep on doing it.