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

This is Manchester, we do things differently here.

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.

When forced to pick between truth and legend, print the legend.

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.

Nothing useless can be truly beautiful.

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

If you live in Birmingham, then being awake is not necessarily a desirable state.

There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity.

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

I am not a piece of hash. I'm in charge of Factory Records. I think.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Protestants do not very often disagree with what Catholics believe, but they do very often disagree with what they think Catholics believe.

Sometimes you're fooled quickly. You want to be fooled. If you can't trust your first impression you're going to have a harder time than you should.

I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty.

He that is in haste may contract much guilt in a little time. What we say or do unadvisedly when we are hot, we must unsay or undo again when we are cool, or do worse.

It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes.

Music should be a collective magic and hysteria.

Being loved by all is little fun Unless you're also loved by one.

Today films are made to cater to commercial markets created by multiplexes, not for those who enjoy good cinema.