Hot Chocolate Quotes
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Once I got married and had my children, I left the life. That's why I can walk away from this, i don't have to be looking for love. When you play to 100,000 people and you come off stage and there's nobody there for you, that's the saddest day of your life.
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This is Manchester, we do things differently here.
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Every band needs it's own special chemistry. And Bez was a very good chemist.
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The special relationship between the region and a regional celebrity means that people feel that they have a special investment in you.
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That came from my mother. She was the biggest influence on my life. I remember once refusing to get on a bus with her because she was wearing a mink, and I thought we should be taking a taxi. She just said, 'Who cares what people think?' and I remember sitting on that bus, being utterly embarrassed, but knowing somehow that she was totally correct.
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I'm a minor player in my own life story.
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Nothing useless can be truly beautiful.
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There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity.
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If you live in Birmingham, then being awake is not necessarily a desirable state.
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Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.
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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.
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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.
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When forced to pick between truth and legend, print the legend.
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I am not a piece of hash. I'm in charge of Factory Records. I think.