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Musician · English · 1967
English musician (born 1967)
“Rock n' roll to me is all about freedom of thought and to be whatever you want to be.”
“In business, you can have one massive success that earns $50 million overnight, and that's it. You're successful. End of story. But in the music business, you have to keep on doing it.”
“I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it's all about status and b...”
“If I ever get to go to the moon, I’ll probably just stand on the moon and go ‘Hmmm, yeah…fair enough…gotta go home now.”
“When you get to a certain age you find that other people’s opinions don’t really matter anymore, and you get kind of uncomfortable with your place in modern life.”
“I hate that Alex and Damon. I hope they catch AIDS and die.”
“Kylie Minogue is just a demonic little idiot as far as I'm concerned. She gets cool dance producers to work with her for some bizarre reason, I don't know why. She doesn't even have a good name. It...”
“There is a limited supply of excellent songs, but I am not the only one. Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years. Rock musicians over...”
“I don't know, I think he's just going senile, isn't he?”
“He's now trying to make social comment, this is the guy who hid who he actually was from the public for 20 years. Now, all of a sudden, he's got something to say about the way of the world. I find ...”
“Jack White, right, has just done a song for Coca-Cola. End of. He ceases to be in the club. And he looks like Zorro on doughnuts. He's supposed to be the poster boy for the alternative way of think...”
“If there were gold medals for taking drugs for England then I’d have won a shitload! I did enjoy it but it kind of got to the point where I’d done them all and that was it, there was none left and ...”
“The music industry doesn't like mavericks. The reason why there are no bands now is because in the 90s Oasis and Primal Scream, Blur, and all those... (bands)-- we were the mainstream. And what the...”
“I live my life in the city / There's no easy way out / The day's moving just too fast for meI live my life for the stars that shine/People say it's just a waste of time.In my mind my dreams are rea...”
“Maybe you're the same as me / We see things they'll never see / You and I are gonna live forever.”
“Tell me how high / Do you think you'll go / Before you start falling?The people here / They don't hear you callingHow does it feel / When you're inside me?”
“There we were / Now here we are / All this confusion / Nothing's the same to meI can't tell you the way I feel / because the way I feel is also new to me”
“I need to be myself / I can't be no-one elseYou can have it all but how much do you want it?”
“You're the outcast / You're the underclass / But you don't care / Because you're living fastYou're the uninvited guest that stays to the end.I'll be scraping your life from the sole of my shoe toni...”
“These could be the best days of our lives / but I don't think we've been living very wise.”