Bez

“When I was growing up in Salford, I was always in trouble. It was stuff like petty crime and all sorts of things.”

“The idea of living on the land and growing my own food and energy was really appealing.”

“Obviously we make a living out of the Happy Mondays. We've been 30-odd years in the industry and couldn't really go out and get a normal job.”

“Being in Happy Mondays has been like a long marriage with highs and lows. We've known each other since high school and are great friends, though there have been severe fallings out.”

“I'm a 50-year-old man. The most I can do these days on a night out is wobble on the spot.”

“I would like to go right back in time to when God created man, and the Adam and Eve story, and the Anunnaki and all that, to discover the real truth about our creation.”

“I went to live with my grandparents when my parents threw me out. Then I went to prison at the age of 17, to detention centre, and I remained there until I was 20.”

“The Labour party was supposed to defend the people and be for the working class, but now they only have ever-so-slightly different polices from the Conservatives.”

“Hopefully, people will listen to 'One Dream' and like it.”

“I lived in sheds, I kipped under bushes, sofa surfing - I went through the whole array of it.”

“I was quite worried about old Shaun as he isn't the healthiest man in the world. I've always told him to take Vitamin C and all that but he says, 'I'm allergic to it.'”

“If you're going to spend a week in bed you might as well do it in style.”

“When I went traveling, I was sleeping on the beach. Sometimes I was starving. I used to dream of eating a meat pie from the chippy.”

“I have got a personal trainer who puts me through my passes.”

“I always advise my sons to believe that they can do whatever they want, and they do. They're very similar to me in their attitude.”

“I don't like either the Labour Party or the Conservatives, but I did really like Tony Benn.”

“I am an eternal survivor.”

“I have dentures and sometimes forget to put them in sterilizing fluid.”

“Like me, most of my fellow artists struggle within the confines of what is 'politically correct.'”

“My old fella was a policeman; he was a chief inspector of the anti-terrorism squad.”