A biography for Shaun Ryderhasn’t been written yet.
“I'm quite happy sat in front of the telly watching everything on Sky, Netflix, Amazon Prime. And the one called Roku. I've got the lot.”
“I had my first panic attack at 52 years of age. I'm glad it came when it did. If I'd had one as a young lad I don't think I'd have been able to have a career.”
“The rest of the band tend to notice things like the door getting opened for the lead singer. And the door shuts on the rest of the band. The lead singer doesn't notice that, but the rest of the band does.”
“I always loved messing around with words.”
“When the Happy Mondays started I was like the dad of the band.”
“People forget I'm that old. They still think it's 1988, when I was 26. They think I'm Peter Pan!”
“I never talk about me mates behind their backs, you know. I might have a laugh, but whatever I say about them I'll certainly say it to their faces.”
“So I'm Labour, although I couldn't vote for Corbyn - he'd have taken too much money off me!”
“We really wanted to be rock 'n' roll, so we became rock 'n' roll, and really good at it, but you pick up loads of layers and you completely forget who you are and what you are.”
“We're not the only life in the universe. We're just not. It's ridiculously impossible.”
“When we came along in 1982, music was getting boring - like 1976 when punk hadn't happened. We wanted to be rock 'n' roll. We grew up with The Velvet Underground, the Stones and Mars bars and Marianne Faithfull and we knew we didn't want to be boring - and we weren't!”
“The first time I voted I was 53-years-old. I never got involved in it before the 2015 general election. I voted Labour.”
“Don't trust anyone that doesn't like any Bowie songs.”
“It is amazing what humans can put up with.”
“It never bothers me playing huge venues; it's not personal, is it?”
“Wives and girlfriends really shouldn't be anywhere near the band. Not at all. Anyone who's listening to their girlfriend, they shouldn't be involved. All bands have Yoko Onos, and the Mondays were no exception.”
“People always ask if I miss the drugs and the partying. I'm a 58-year-old man - no, I don't!”
“When he was young and because he was off his nut, Bez would spit when he talked.”
“I wouldn't want to be 20 again.”
“I'm not really good with hangovers.”