Quotes

[on "Dragnet"] Even though it was the arse-end of punk, it wasn't the done thing for a studio to release something that sounded so willfully alien to everything else. In their minds this meant sabotaging future projects with the likes of fucking Marillion.

I used to be psychic, but I drank my way out of it.

The thing with me, I can't talk about my work. I find it very difficult.

They're weird aren't they, Prince fans?

The only good Philip K. Dick film is Total Recall (1990). It's faithful to the book. Arnie gets it.

It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like listening to Pavement it's just The Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads.

I do feel like an outsider, but I don't lose any sleep over it.

I was really into Gary Glitter, and I used to get bad mouthed for it. It was like "You've got to be into David Bowie or Yes - Gary Glitter's just tripe". And I was going "It's fuckin' great. It's avant-garde". Well, two drummers and all that - it was really percussive. It was the only decent thing around.

Being in The Fall isn't like being in another group. It isn't a holiday. A lot of musicians are really hard to deal with. They aren't as smart as me.

[on James Blunt] There was always privilege in music, it was always like that, but nowadays you don't have a chance in hell. Why Blunt would talk about it I don't know but that's what I'm saying. He's looked at them cutting the army back, he's in a tank and he's gone to Daddy, "What shall I do?" In the past it would have been "stick at it", now his Dad is telling him to be a jazz singer. Imagine him as a tank commander, I'd shit myself.

[on Kate Bush] Who decided it was time to start liking her again? I never even liked her the first time round. It's like all these radio DJs have been raiding their mam's and dad's record collections and decided that Kate Bush is suddenly cool again. But I'm not having it.

Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this?

I think that the Kaiser Chiefs and Arctic Monkeys should open a chain of chip shops in North Yorkshire.

If it's me and yer granny on bongos, it's The Fall.