A biography for Shaun Ryderhasn’t been written yet.
“I've been asked to write my autobiography, but I've not been interested.”
“There were some miles-better bands than us. We were conscious that we weren't the best or the smartest, but we certainly knew how to work the press.”
“I never thought I'd die young. Even at the worst moments, I've always thought I was gonna live till I was about 127.”
“Good music always sticks around.”
“I stole my first albums 'Pin-Ups' and 'Hunky Dory' by David Bowie from the first super-sized supermarket in Salford, which also sold tents and camping gear.”
“Drugs shut you down, cut you off emotionally. You think being off your head makes life easier, but it's a lot easier when you're not.”
“From being a little kid, I've always been interested in space. 'Star Trek' and 'Close Encounters' - not 'Star Wars.'”
“When you're young, everything's boring, basically.”
“I didn't DJ at Liverpool's Ruby Sky nightclub but a couple of newspapers said how great my DJ set was, and how I've straightened up, which is true, and how I was drinking tea. But I wasn't there!”
“I saw my first UFO in 1978.”
“There's all sorts of stories about me. I've stopped listening to them. You've got to laugh at them, really.”
“I don't get involved with the music scene any more. It's just alien to me.”
“He is like a bad dog, Bez. We lived together in a flat and if you didn't get up before him, he would get up and he would take your clothes.”
“Education is about remembering stuff and I could never remember anything, so I didn't get an education.”
“I've got allergies. Really badly. I'm getting worse as I'm getting older.”
“Me and my dad have exactly the same head and nose.”
“I don't have a problem with saying, 'I love you.' I probably said it to the whole of the red-light district in Amsterdam when I was about 21.”
“My muscles have caved in. I go to bed at night, and next day I've got this pot belly where all my muscles have collapsed; so I look fat, but there's nothing I can do about it.”
“Adidas have been my pals for years. I might have been skint these past few years but I might also have been naked if they'd not kept sending me the freebies.”
“All my kids grew up around showbiz so they know it's just a job.”