I was driving my car, I crashed and broke my spine. So yes there are things worse in life than never being someone’s sweetie.
There’s more to life than books, you know. But not much more.
America is not the world.
I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I’m miserable now.
I don’t iron anything. Never have and never will.
Although I don’t have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.
Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.
No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher.
I never imagined I’d be a solo artist. And now I couldn’t imagine being part of a group.
I don’t even know if I exist offstage.
I don’t want to get too involved in marketing budgets, online promotions and download set-ups because it would be a bit like Gertrude Stein mapping out a TV campaign. I want to sing. I want visibility. I am essentially Al Martino, not Seymour Stein.
Each year of life brings us nearer to our decline, but I will continue to seek a listener until I’m dead in a ditch.
The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.
That’s why I do this music business thing, it’s communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.
I think we were all initially swept along with the Obama win, but he’s proven to be simply a set of teeth, and useless in every other regard.
When I’m lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.
Whether it be Beyonce or Justin Bieber, we see singers who have absolutely nothing to offer anyone as they walk off stage clutching three Grammys in each hand.
Any criticism of Thatcher throws a dangerously absurd light on the entire machinery of British politics. Thatcher’s name must be protected, not because of all the wrong that she had done, but because the people around her allowed her to do it.
All of us, ultimately, we’re not that interesting, when it comes down to it.
I’m not an anarchist, but I believe that people don’t want the royal family – the so-called royal family.