A biography for Mick Hucknallhasn’t been written yet.
“Copyright promotes artistic creativity and the free circulation of ideas.”
“Being abandoned by my mother gives me a sense of insecurity that I will never recover from. I have to try and recreate that balance by trying to create a sense of self-worth. And yes, being on stage is a part of that.”
“I thought of Britain as a moderate place. Britain isn't a place of majority madness, we're not like that.”
“I've read some amazingly derogatory things about me over the years and I've sat there and thought: if you replaced 'ginger' with 'black' or even 'Asian,' you'd be up in front of a judge.”
“I keep reading that I'm diminutive - why do people call me that? I'm 5ft 11in with size 11 feet. I'd actually like smaller feet. It might be a fetish, but I do like graceful feet, and small ones lend themselves to grace.”
“I can't vote for Corbyn.”
“People always tell me that redheads go silver. Long, silver-grey hair would be my ideal way of ageing.”
“My mum left when I was three and my dad never remarried.”
“I'm quite happy being famous for what I do but I'm not happy about being famous for the sake of being famous.”
“My dad's generation was stony-faced.”
“My dad knew I was mad about music. While he worked as a barber he would hear songs on the radio and we'd have endless discussions about them. So I got my first record player when I was 11 years old.”
“For some, music is a limitless source of cheap content, just waiting to be exploited.”
“Whatever the means of delivery, whatever the technological and corporate structures, music will always be about groups of talented individual performers communicating emotionally with individual fans.”
“For my profession, you need hair.”
“I think my music ran parallel to a lot of people's lives. We were always chugging along in the background.”
“I feel enormously privileged to be part of the generation that witnessed the magic of the Beatles first hand, and I think 'A Hard Day's Night' connected with my four-year-old self because it was the whole package: an album and a movie.”
“Composing is what drives me; it's not the pursuit of fame. My songs are like pages in a diary.”
“Whatever I do winds people up. I've been tattooed with every one of those criticisms.”
“Privatization of utilities costs would be astronomical, as would setting up a National Bank.”
“I first sang 'Holding Back the Years' in my earliest band, Frantic Elevators. When the Elevators split and I started Simply Red, I returned to the song and wrote the 'I'll keep holding on' chorus.”