A biography for Mick Hucknallhasn’t been written yet.
“Fatherhood has changed me completely.”
“Comfortable and political can go together quite well.”
“I've got one of those heart-shaped faces and I take weight on my cheeks and jowls and gut, so in pictures I look much heavier than I actually am.”
“In 1998 when I did the album 'Blue,' that was my worst phase.”
“I just want to write songs in my little corner. And I still love music, I've not been worn down by cynicism.”
“My long-term girlfriends have always had something special about them.”
“There's no such thing as a typical day because I lead a very random life.”
“I knew I was famous the day I played football with mates in L.A. I scored a goal and Rod Stewart jumped on top of me. I thought: 'I had a poster of you on my wall when I was 12.'”
“In January 1999, I proposed an initiative to the Music Industry Forum which I called Communities In Tune. Its aim was to bring community centres to the Internet generation.”
“Those who say they're not ambitious are being disingenuous.”
“I'm a troublemaker.”
“Everyone dreams of being in a band because they want to be like the Beatles, but even the Beatles weren't always that happy.”
“I don't want to be a slave to commercial success any more.”
“People are racist about redheads in a way they'd never dare to be about black or Asian people.”
“For a frontman of a band, good hair is a requisite.”
“I love quality drinks - a really good beer, or a great wine.”
“Money's Too Tight to Mention' was about as big an anti-Thatcherite message as you can get in pop music. There was a vast swath of the British media at that time that were rabid Thatcherites; do you think they are going to take kindly to me? Then I got hit by the left, because we were too popular.”
“I'm really bad with dates and never know what I'm doing from one day to the next.”
“Family puts things in perspective.”