The manners thing's got worse. People think they can just text you if they've got bad news for you. It's not on. And as for people taking pictures at gigs on their phones, that's just weird.
— Mark E. Smith
They're weird aren't they, Prince fans?
I do feel like an outsider, but I don't lose any sleep over it.
'Re-Mit' is going to terrify people. It's quite horrible. The Fall have had enough and we're coming for you.
Fear is something I try not to absorb.
I was picked on because I was timid. I had younger sisters; I couldn't turn to them for help. I didn't have an older brother.
The thing with me. I can't stick musicians. I've thought about this. I can't stand them, and being stuck in a studio with them I think that's my strength I can hear what they can't.
I'm just never getting there. I'm getting round to it. I'm beginning to understand it a bit more.
Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this?
All these cities I go to, I never see them. They may be the most beautiful places in the world, but I'll just usually go to the nearest bar. I need a couple of hours by myself.
Prince's manager once told me that I was the only person other than Prince who can recruit from the streets. Which was very flattering.
When I was 14, I used to have a calendar on my wall, crossing the days off until I was 15, because the school leaving age was 15. Then three months before I turned 15 they changed the leaving age to 16.
If it's me and yer granny on bongos, it's the Fall.
Every day is great for me. I dislike rose-coloured glasses.
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.
The thing with me, I can't talk about my work. I find it very difficult.
I used to be psychic, but I drank my way out of it.
The only good Philip K. Dick film is 'Total Recall.' It's faithful to the book. Arnie gets it.
When I was 18, the vision was to make music that didn't exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory.
My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three.
I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange.
I don't want security guards. I don't think security guards are particularly good for your writing.
I like to push people till I get the truth out of them.
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.
He told me I didn't understand, that we were from the bleak industrial wastes of North England, or something, and that we didn't understand the Internet. I told him Fall fans invented the Internet. They were on there in 1982.
