"I decided I wanted to be a drummer in a famous band when I was 11 years old."
"There's this thing going around in the British press about how I'm American...It's like, what are you talking about?? I'm from Manchester!"
"I've got a kid, an ex-girlfriend and a band leader I've got to keep in check. I'm going to go into social work when all this is finished."
"As for me, I think I’m gonna just stick to the music. I don’t appreciate all the hangin’ around that happens with filming. Music is more immediate, it’s more immediately pleasing, I think."
"It's wearing your girlfriends knickers while she's at work."
"We'd score a bit of weed and it gets translated [in the press] into cocaine or heroin."
"It’s why this country needs a proper, integrated, free public transport system. Get the buses running. Then people won’t take smack."
"My dad's been on my case about being in bands for fucking years and years. My parents were bragging around Manchester, 'My son is doing this and my son is doing that' and then turn around to me and say, 'Get yourself a proper job! It won't last!' When I was 20 years old, I managed to get two weeks doing demos with Simply Red for God's sake, and it still wasn't enough! Nowadays it's, 'Sorry dad -- how much money do you make a year? Fuck off!'"
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