I've been a minor celebrity since I was 23 years old.

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.

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

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.

Stay humble as a writer: write on toilet paper.

Don’t look at your circumstance. Be courageous!

At home I am a man, at work I am a machine.

It takes more than one individual to make a team.

We can disagree with one another without being raging, judgmental, spiteful, self-righteous lunatics. Can’t we?

Fiction makes your dreams come true, and, as a writer, fiction allows you to delve into the area of miracles.

And it is the way with us that you may express disapproval of the sun or the moon, or anything you like, but God preserve you from touching the Liberals! Heaven forbid!

There's enough adverbs in the world for you to start creating new ones.

Let some people get rich first.

As a mountain is unshaken by the wind, so the heart of a wise person is unmoved by all the changes on this earth.