America stopped making vinyl and phased out the single but Germany held out and refused. Warner's never phased out vinyl in Germany. Now America imports it!

I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism.

But then I quite enjoy when something goes wrong, because when I watch DJs that take it very seriously, it's nice when you make a mistake and laugh about it.

The scary thing is when I did my set in Texas everyone was excited. The show was great. I was done and the next DJ put something on vinyl and the difference! The quality!!

There's a very fine line between being artistic and being a dickhead - it's like love and hate.

The chemistry involved made everything Factory did quite special.

Sarcasm is a Manchester trait.

Nobody is the same. If we were all the same it would be bloody boring.

We don't to be some kind of rock supergroup for the sake of being a supergroup. You want to change things and say something fresh and new so you appeal to people as a new group.

I think people expect mud at festivals, I think you'd be asking for your money back if you didn't get it.

When digital recording came in about '84, everything started to follow into digital. Now, you've got the best recording media in the world, but it's not very pleasing to the ear.

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

Battle not with monsters, for then you become one.

It is trust, more than money, that makes the world go round.

I think that no one roiled American politics and sort of scrambled the left/right dynamic more 2015 year than Pope Francis.

Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite.

so I wait for you like a lonely house till you will see me again and live in me. Till then my windows ache.

There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt.

If I told you God was black, what would you think of that?

Many people believe the names of In 'n Out and Steak 'n Shake perfectly describe the contrast in bedroom techniques between the coast and the heartland.

Azhar Usman is very funny, deeply spiritual, and extremely hairy. He's like Zach Galifianakis meets Deepak Chopra-and funnier than you'd expect that combination to be.