Shaun Ryder

“I bike ride and swim but I don't exercise 'cos I like it. I do it because I've got a thyroid problem that can balloon my weight up to 20 stone if I stand still for five minutes.”

“Maybe 20 years ago I was all right looking, but certainly not now. I've lost it.”

“I'm more of a sea lion than a lion.”

“I didn't think I'd ever follow Bez on to a reality TV show. But it was brilliant for him winning 'Celebrity Big Brother' and he's still my best mate.”

“I don't drink at home. I don't go to the pub or clubs.”

“The Shaun Ryder in the Happy Mondays isn't the real Shaun Ryder. It's a caricature. Always has been.”

“I'm proper schizophrenic - really, really, really shy, but also a bit of a loon.”

“When the Happy Mondays first got famous, I just thought, 'I deserve this, I deserve to sell records.'”

“I think I'm a really good dad.”

“My missus does all the cleaning. She loves it.”

“I wasn't interested in anything at school apart from making sure I had the latest fashion on my body and making sure that I had a bit of dollar.”

“When I was 15 and starting my first job as a messenger boy at the post office, delivering telegrams.”

“I had Oliver Reed as a neighbor. He was always in the pub and despite his age, he always wanted to wrestle everyone.”

“'Tiger King.' They are absolutely gone with the fairies, they're all absolutely raving out of the box, the lot of them. All those people with animals like tigers, who've got their own zoos in America, and one guy's got something like 2,000 tigers in his back garden. It's absolutely mad.”

“I've not stopped drinking, I'm not a born again one of them, we just don't have booze in the house.”

“When I hit 40, I ballooned. I thought it might have been age, abuse, but it wasn't, it was a thyroid condition.”

“It was cycling that got me off drugs. I'd get on my bike very early in the morning and keep cycling until very late at night, day after day, until it was out of the system.”

“My mam collects everything to do with everything we've ever done. I don't remember us doing Happy Mondays underpants but my old girl reckons she's got a pair.”

“I'd love to see the Stone Roses do a show but it won't happen.”

“I'm from a close-knit Catholic family.”