A biography for Mick Hucknallhasn’t been written yet.
“Corbyn Labour's budget numbers simply don't add up on the NHS and the economy.”
“Family is so important, I know that.”
“I wish I had known my mother, but I've only met her twice. I can only figure about people who were there for me and she wasn't.”
“The reason I'm uncomfortable with celebrity and don't care about it is that none of that matters. I think that's why people attack me and think I'm arrogant. I've never felt the need to justify myself. If I make good music, that music will do the job for me, even when I'm dead and gone.”
“Tom Jones told me only a few singers have got the pipes, and he's right. He has. Sinatra did. I have.”
“I get great creative pleasure from my work.”
“Tony Blair's a friend.”
“Ageing is something to celebrate. If you can avoid long-term debilitating injury and illness, it's something you have to embrace because the other choice is being dead. So embrace it, grow with it. And that's what I try and do.”
“I first heard Miles Davis as a student, when I was struck by his extraordinary musicianship, and his work did affect some of the sounds of Simply Red. He was one of the reasons I chose to have a muted trumpet on 'Holding Back the Years.'”
“As a teenager you bounce off your mum, they give you guidance.”
“At art school, a teacher said: 'The best paintings are when you get lost in a piece of work and start painting in a stream of consciousness.' I wanted to do music, not art, so started writing lyrics that way. The first song I wrote was called 'Ice Cream and Wafers.' The next was 'Holding Back the Years.'”
“You live the life of a gipsy when you are on tour, and that's not ideal for family life.”
“Copyright is fundamentally socialist - it is radical and redistributive, subversive even. How else would you describe a form of property that anyone can create out of nothing?”
“I wanted love from every single woman on the planet because I didn't have my mother's love.”
“When we treat music as an industrial commodity, and young people as merely consumers, we overlook the joy of participating in music... of learning to play an instrument, of joining a band or an orchestra, and playing gigs.”
“To properly fund the NHS, we must ALL chip in. As a fully paid U.K. tax resident since 1985, I'd be proud to contribute to that.”
“I grew up in Denton, east Manchester, and was raised by my late father, Reg, a barber.”
“I've always thought my dad was fantastic and now I'm a dad myself I can see what an incredible sacrifice he made as a man in the 60s - he was there every day for me, cooked my meals and shaped me.”
“I am grateful I have been blessed with a family that I never imagined I would ever even understand what that is, let alone have my own family.”
“I actually felt sorry for Liverpool bands like Bunnymen and Wah!, having this immense pressure of following the Beatles. I suppose I responded to that challenge by being nothing like them. I carved my own thing.”